What have you done today in the Garden?

While my husband was mowing I got into the small seasonal vegetable garden and pulled carrots and cut spinach.
Then while he was mowing the paths to the pond, I cut back two ornamental grasses, did some flower bed weeding, and took more of our seedlings outside to start hardening off.
I can always find something urgent to do that leaves him with the mowing!

 

Made and put the top on the tomato cage/chicken pen.
Fed the chickens .


( photo / image / picture from Donna S's Garden )






( photo / image / picture from Donna S's Garden )



Rich says if a squirrel get in we buy chickens.

 

You sure aren't fooling around keeping those squirrels away!

 

That chicken pen is smashing, Donna. I am so terribly green with envy it is almost scandalous.

That looks really good. Pity you were forced to build it. Say...do you guys eat squirrels?-- chuckle.

Today was a great day here. It was the day when free compost was on offer from de municipal green waste processing plant. They supplied nice, thick and tough plastic bags, as well as shovels to shovel it into the bags with.

My bride and I went to the place after clearing out the back end of the vehicle. We got 12 huge bags full of steaming, black compost in the auto and then drove back over to the lottie complex. There was a team busy there chipping tree branches. It was a busy day all round.

We transported the load to the garden and stored it in two strategic points for spreading later. I managed to pull my back today, so I shall have to see when I can do that. The sooner the better.

The first place will be in the greenhouse, then the whole flower garden and what is left over will go onto the veggie plots.

In spite of the strong winds-- with the sun being out, my bees were flying and foraging. They are looking good.

I had to tie-in some Clematis twigs here and there The wind knew how to reach in and work them loose somehow.

Things are early, but looking good here. `Tjonge jonge--I can hardly wait to start spreading the compost!

 

Yesterday I was able to get alot done. Got all of the mowing, weed-eating, trimming done... first time really this year. Then I spread 1/2 yard of mulch in the bed along the driveway.

 

busy this weekend! Laid out 2/3's of the horse manure / straw mixture onto the rows. in about three weeks i will turn it under with the tiller and we will be ready to plant seeds and seedlings.

i have found a goldmine for manure. we live near the camden, sc horse track where they run the Colonial Cup as well as the Carolina Cup steeple chase races. they have a pile of crap as tall as my house and twice as long! i could raid it for years and not dent it! also, it's FREE!!!

my compost pile will be exceedingly rich for the forseeable future. and i will use it to mulch and weed block as it fertailizes the plants at the same time. SCORE!

 

I finished filling the smart pot with composted soil and planted 3 kinds of lettuce in it. I call it my salad bowl.
Dug up 13 hybiscus and potted them up to sell.

Cheryl,
I walked around the house this morning and counted 18 squirrels between my yard and the neighbors. So no I'm not fooling around with them anymore (I hope).

Sjoerd,
It really has been a battle with the squirrels. I just hope this works. And as for eating them no we don't. They look to much like a rat with a bushy tail.

 

Donna, my wife feels the same way about squirrels. cats love to eat them we have found. as long as you dont mind seeing some squirrel parts here and there on occassion.

 

Donna, my wife feels the same way about squirrels. cats love to eat them we have found. as long as you dont mind seeing some squirrel parts here and there on occassion.

 

Although it has been unseasonably cold here, we got out to trim a lot of dead out of a Pine tree. I wanted to get it done before the plants emerge in the beds so we wouldn't tromp on them. Then I raked all the pine needle debris out of the beds.
It was 10°F here this a.m.!! That is just wrong for the end of March!!
I have very few signs of spring. The Daffs, Crocus ,and Tulips aren't up, Forsythia is still asleep...
*Patience*

This cold weather is not stopping our landscaping business though. Crews have been out for two weeks doing maintenance and mulching. I watch em from the truck

 

Got a little done today, but it's been windy and a little cool (upper 50s) and cloudy. And since I'm still not over that cold, I didn't think I should spend too much time outside. So, I got a few things planted. Up-potted some seedlings. Watered indoor plants. Moved a couple things back outside. Sure was hoping to get some weeding done. :'(

 

Got a little perennial clean-up and dividing then did some bamboo litter clean-up. Filled the green bin for tomorrow's pick-up, and blew some of the fir needles off the driveway. Wish I could spend this next week working in the yard....oh well, hi ho, hi, ho it's off to work I go

 

Today I started cleaning up the leafs to make sure that I could put in a new flowerbed (or two, if I can get an affordable option) and I decided to clear off most of my lawn. I need to re-grass my lawn because there are a bunch of different dark patches after the colder seasons.