Tiffani Thiessen on Gardens

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60 Degrees

Spent the last couple hours setting up the watermelon bed and dragging sticks to the curb. I am grimy and worn out! But, how can you not get out in the SUN in the dead of February, even if it means yard work?


I do hope these pictures of the stick pile portray how big a mess there was in the yard. Giant limbs that had to be dragged in the foreground, oodles of smaller branches and twigs to the back.









I know this looks like a grave, but it really isn't. Really. It is a layered future planting bed: Cardboard on the bottom, then newspaper, then composted manure, then ground up clippings from last year, then peat humus, then mulch. Phew. By mid-May it should be all rotted together into a nice pile of nutritious earth for my watermelons and zucchini. Yay! Would have been a lot easier if it weren't so windy!




Meanwhile, the bulbs are doing fine today after I pulled a foot or so of oak leaves off of them last night. Mostly daffodils, I think. And a lone snow drop. So far.

Can't Resist

Once the seeds go on sale, it is like a magnet, I cannot help but buy some. Yes, some. I have a coupon for Delhi F&G, so I may get more over the weekend...

Meanwhile, I bought some manure, humus, and mulch to prep a new bed for the watermelons and zucchini, pumped up the tires in the garden cart, and cleared most of the leaves off of the tiny strip between the driveway and the west fence. Bulbs are popping up, so I think I got the leaves off just in time. Pix too follow, it was dark by the time I finished.

I Don't Think It's Over...

The snow is almost gone. For now.





And here come the spring bulbs.
















Meanwhile, LOTS of clean up to do in the yard. Feel free to stop by and help...

Amaryllis Progression

January 18th through February 1st.