A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Gardener's Chat Carly's Gardenin' - April 2k8

OK, folks - that's enough complaining about the winter we just had. It's 11 celsius - good enough for me . . .

I've done nothing yet - there's still bits of snow on parts of the lot and it's wet and mucky, of course.

But I am going to tidy up a bit.

I'm still nursing a sprained foot and ankle from a fall I had about 4 weeks ago, so progress will be minimal.

The most I've done is plant a few cuttings - I'm not putting those outside, of course.

As for pictures . . . do I have any pictures . . . no.

The only thing up on my Photo Bucket are some scans of old photos - if ya' wanna see what I looked like a gazillion years ago, go there.

http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/WildCityWoman/

I was thinking about you over the weekend and wondering if you were hibernating.

Hi Carly~nice to see you back.

Hi Sherri & Tamara . . . I have been hibernating, more or less. Did a lot of reading over the winter and kept up with online book discussions.

I've got to get some exercise though . . . my foot's pretty good now - I want to start biking a lot - soon!

And, of course, gardening.

Too tired this afternoon though.

OK - I've been out there!

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! It was just a matter of putting a few tools together, getting my milk crate, putting it in front of the rock garden.

I put my butt on said milk crate, lit a smoke and studied the mess - then I began - I've got it halfway cleaned up!

What felt really good was getting my nails dirty - and getting a slight ache in the lower back from stretching to the top of the slope. I got in a nice bubble bath afterwards and the ache went away . . . I washed my hair and my fingernails are clean!

I'm so proud of my sweet self.

good deal carly. glad you are "back in the saddle" as it were!

Hiii Carly! Good to see you here!!

Awwwwwwwww But doesn't that first back ache of the season really kinda make your spirit feel good,, That's a sure sign spring is here!

How's the snow situation Carly?

Way to go Carly. That is wonderful. I'm glad your ankle has healed up for you. And your right even though I'm leaving this area I still had to get out there and weed the beds and check on the potted plants to make sure they survived well.

I also got the startling suprise that several bulbs eluded me last fall when I lifted them. But I'll get them just as soon as the leaves die back. Or start to. I won't misplace them this time lol.


Love reading about your garden exploits. Keep posting Carly.

Hi all - thanks for the great welcome back!

This afternoon I bought some pansies and a pot of daffodils . . . tomorrow we're to have 12 celsius and SUN!

I'm going to finish cleaning that rock garden - and plant my new goodies!

I've already posted warnings of my absence on all the book discussions groups I've become involved with online.

Those books haven't got a chance!

Ha ha!

Books are good, but gardening is better!

Your planting already? Wow, how come our weather is so different for being so close? no fair.

nope sweetheart, I am not--just planning to get a few large pots ready. it is time to plant my spinach.--but a large paart of the time it is too wet then it turns to be too warm for the spinach---I am jsut going to try container gardening this year, --i will be able to do this easieler bending & stretching

Well, not much planting . . . just the daffs and pansies . . . they seem to be holding ok.

We're going to 20 celsius tomorrow and Friday.

Cool at nights, of course.

I've finished cleaning the rock garden and the slope beside it - no pictures yet.

We got the hose out for the first time today - just to wash down the newly cleaned stuff . . . and my neighbour passed a few twigs over for me to stick in, just to see if they'd take root.

I plugged them in, just to green up a bit - the twigs are holding! They've been there for two days - so I thought they oughta' be watered.

Skitter, as always, on the job . . .



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An Experiment . . .



My neighbour, Pat, found these sprigs in her driveway and thought it might be a good idea to poke them into the top of the slope - we'll see if they root.

I doubt it, but what the heck, it's a little colour for now.

Here's the rest of the journal so far . . .

http://wildcity.proboards14.com/ind...ard=gardening&thread=2994&page=1

Some of it's kinda' depressing - a lot of leaves to be pried up - they look dry, but underneath, they're soaked right through to the ground!

We've spent the week picking it up - there's still scads to do - we each do a couple hours a day - the bones are screaming!

Jeff and I have been working yesterday and today . . . made a lot of progress.

I'll be taking more pictures soon.

I have nothing to say - other than my usual rants about people bugging me by standing around talking about all the things I 'should do', while I'm 'doing' what needs doing right now.

And people letting their kids rampage, like it's a public park.

And people letting their dogs have a leak here, a leak there . . . like it's a public park.

Grrrrrrrrrrrr!

Anyway, we're moving along - removing all those caked leaves as we go - filling a gazillion garden bags.

It's raining and it's going to be doing so for a while.

What is all this jazz about 'Cindy' anyway?

Did I miss something?

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Ahhhhhhhh!

Sorry to hear that - well, actually I'm glad for the 'almost' part of that.

Hope she's holding up ok.

Carly I read your pm topic to tamara. She said to tell you that we still have snow. We have 2 to 3 feet left everywhere. she also wants to let you know that there is still snow to fall this week.

Oops, this is her sis-in-law Anne posting for her.

Hi Anne. Tell her how much we miss her! :ding:

I can't believe you will be getting MORE snow.

Hi Anne - nice to meet you.

As Tamara probably told you, I'm in Toronto, Ontario.

Hope some of that white stuff is melting off.

We've got a lot of cold drizzling rain right now.

I'm back and posting now Carly.

Hi Tamara - I'm up at 4:30 in the morning - not sleeping, which often happens to me.

I am thinking about bluebells - we have lots of them coming up. More so than other years - I'm recognizing the leaf.

Soooooooo . . . I'm thinking about what I want to do with them. I already put some in my barrel.

They could fill in some big tiresome patches.

I'll have to see.

It's supposed to stop raining tomorrow - that'll be nice. All the green is coming out here - those little bits that fall off the tree buds . . . it's making me think green, green, green.

As always, I'm frustrated - what I want to do, often gets into conflict with what I really can do.

Ohhhhhhhhhhh . . .

I want to garden, garden, garden.

And I want it to be my own land, with a whole lotta' money so I can give it a good going over.

That was nice of your sister-in-law to drop in and post for you.

Does Anne also garden?

I got some tulips at Canadian Tire - 1.49 for a pot - there's 6 bulbs in each.

It was raining too much, so I couldn't put them out in the rock garden - they're sitting on our 'icebox' - even though it's dark out here in the living room, they're opening!

They look so happy there.

$1.49 for a pot of tulips, what a steal! I've never been fortunate enough to find cheap plants or discount plants for that matter. It stopped raining here, and the sky looks divided. On the left there's blue sky poking out, on the right it's a covered by a grey cloud. I can't wait to get out there!

I'm looking forward to the pictures. Keep up the good work.

Get over to Canadian Tire!

I think the sale's on for the week.

We got ours at the stockyards store (Keele & St. Clair). The aisles in the gardening section were lined with them!

A CT near you probably has them too.

We went out to Bowmanville today - had the buffet brunch at Fifth Wheel.

When we came back I tackled this corner here . . . cleaned it all up and transplanted a lot of that leaf (that I think becomes bluebells) into it.

I'm not going to plant my tulips right now - I'll put them in the ground somewhere when the flowers have spent.

There are other tulips coming in on the lot, but the squirrels are knocking their heads off as fast as they come in - the little buggers!

That's last year's picture, btw . . . it has a pot of cyclamen in it.

There's no cyclamen yet - someone will probably bring me a pot.

The person who was bringing me plants that the bank discards, is not happy with me right now - he insulted my grass last week, and I got pretty uppity with him.

Thanks for the plants, all the favours, yadda' yadda', but you don't get to insult my gardenin'!

I find if I plan what I'm going to do the next day, I get it done - if I just go out there and putter around, I don't make the progress I want.

Tomorrow, I'm going to finish cleaning up my 'point circle' - I'll take a pic of that too, so you'll know what I'm talking about.