What have you done today in the Garden?

Everything is looking good in the greenhouse Carolyn! I was able to do a little bit of raking out in the yard yesterday. The ground is usually still frozen this time of year, but we have had mild temperatures and I was able to edge 2 small gardens and weed a little! I hope I can get outside again today and edge the back garden, and turn the compost pile. It felt so good to be out playing in the dirt again! Now I am wondering if it is too early to plant a few things ... some of my seed packets say to plant as soon as the ground can be worked and I am definitely able to work the ground!

 

Nettie, be prepared to cover in case of frost in early May.

Carolyn, your growing looks a bit TOO work heavy for me. LOL I fear I'm a lazy gardener. Your seedlings do look great.

Our garlic is looking healthy.

 

Toni, have you used chicken wire fencing?

 

This is the easy part. Harvesting is the work, but that is okay. I started doing this to remodel my kitchen... which I got finished (mostly) this Winter. so, now.. we need a corn planter that is next, but we also need to start replacing things around here... the roof primarily.. then on to the things such as a furnace and water heater.. etc. These things are wearing out and so I'll keep doing this to accomplish those things... THEN hopefully there will still be body left in me to do it for fun.

Glad your garlic is doing well, I haven't even checked mine.

 

It is always so inspiring to see your set-up, C.

 

I'm looking a the white stuff again and more predicted over the next few days. Everyone seems to be busy cleaning up flowerbeds and planting vegetables. We did get a lot of clean up done when we a couple of warm days. I'm starting to set up my seed growing area so I can get my tomatoes and broccoli seeds started.

 

Where to start??? Well, let me begin with a ....groan, then.
We did lots of little preparation chores in the veggie and flower gardens.

We worked for an hour and a half chipping twigs with the rented wood chipper for the gardening club. The agreement was that folks taking wood chips for their lotties would donate 30 mins of their time...otherwise folks could come by the chipping area and just work for as long as they wanted for the good of the Club.
Our club supplied wheelbarrows, shovels and hearing protection.
That was hard and stuffy work as well as the noise and exhaust from the chipper motor to endure. hahaha. I'm really moaning now, aren't I.
Well, it is true though, that one must constantly be alert when chipping because that powerful machine can easily suck your hand and arm right into the works. It is not work for a laid-back daydreamer.
I could see how accidents could happen--for instance when stuffing twigs and so forth into the machine...at times it would not take it down. One has the urge to reach down into that hopper and sort the blockage out. WRONG. Because when the machine does catch the twig, it sucks it down hard and fast--It is a path of no return, if you get what I mean.

I had an uncle that lost an arm whilst bailing hay on his own. It was a drama. I heard this story once when the adults were talking. I suppose that every family has its sagas.

 

LOL Toni, I don't have chickens, but chicken wire fencing keeps small animals out of the garden. We bury about a foot of wire to keep the critters from digging under.

Sjoerd, you made me remember the movie, Fargo. I will only say a wood chipper was involved.

Nothing doing in the yard nor garden this week. We had lots of rain which means too wet for digging.

 

Ah Toni, we too have the stray cat problem. I resorted to tossing thinly sliced lemon peels in the garden area. Supposed to keep cats away.
Yes to worms. We even bought a few to add to our garden soil.

 

The neighbor kid (at least 1/2 mile away) showed up looking for something to do. At first I thought.. nope!, but as I stood there planting begonias I thought... oh... tomato cages... cha ching! I thought if I kept him busy he wasn't getting into trouble somewhere else. So he used my bolt cutters and shortened almost 60 tomato cages for me. I put them around potted tomatoes and sell them with fruit on them in May. He did almost enough to finish up my pots.

I potted up about 100 anglewing begonias I started from cuttings

watered a few things and came in to make supper.

 

Watered and fed my new rose.
K