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well in between storms today, I went out & took all the leave mulch off of my crocus bed in the front of the house.--and yea yea, I know I said I wasn't going to, well I guess a girl can change her mind, huh ??? besides, I always take it off too late---perhaps next year I will not even cover them ???

good news is I may have gotten the leaves removed in time so the crocus will bloom well. why

bad news is, there are daffodils (or something) growing over my Dwarf dutch iris that I planted last fall.--I guess it is not going to bloom ??


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Trying to be optimistic today, so I out out the first four Hummingbird feeders. clown

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WOW---good for you !! I dont dare to bother putting mine out until the last week of April, & for here, that is a week early..


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My Hummers will arrive here in 17 days, or less so I just want to be sure they have food if they show up early. For some reason I have sorely neglected them for the last couple years...

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I'm cleaning my feeders this weekend and getting them out,, a little early still But one can never tell, we've had a very warm winter,, so maybe some HB's still around,,
Also going to remove leaves from beds and look for new green,, I see the clematis is reviving and starting to grow,, as is the Blue passion flower


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been raking leaves and cleaning up, getting ready to plant


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I cut all the Honeysuckle back on Hummingbird House... Dirty job... There must have been 50 miles of vines that got whacked

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Originally Posted by Bill
I cut all the Honeysuckle back on Hummingbird House.. There must have been 50 miles of vines that got whacked

WOW! that was a lot of work!

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I uncovered a flower bed Lots and lots of leaves that will go into compost,, My Dianthus have not stopped blooming since last spring,, we never really had freezing temps maybe twice this winter and they were pretty well covered, I found lots of pink blooms that were nearer the top,, I guess enough sunlight got thru,, thumbup


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More cleaning today. No burning, too windy. So glad I am getting to get started this early on cleaning up, i'll be ready to toss my seeds out when it finally gets time


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well this is waht Belinda made me realize that I NEED to do--I need to get outside & weed by back 2 beds---I didn't lay new mulch down last spring, and as a result I have lots of weeds, and they seem to have been growing some all winter---after it rains the next time I will weed them.
(If I wait until the next rain, I figure the weeds will pull totally out easier.) why

OH, did I mention that these 2 beds don't really have a lot of flowers in them ?? It is where I put some flowers & a good number of my decorative rocks from "the farm".


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Carol do you have any pics? My yard got out of hand last year. I went to Texas for 3 weeks and when I came back the grass had just gone wild, the yard mowing was enough to keep me busy all summer, we went back to Texas for the week of July 4th. then it was way too hot here and my ac went out and that seem to take forever to fix, just one of those years . So this year I'm trying to get a jump on things was out all day today and cleaned more flower beds, some were so bad I just mowed them under last fall.

Today I trimmed back my banana trees they are coming out way too soon, silly things think its spring already. Lol


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Saw a couple wasp already so I cleaned and baited my wasp trap today also.


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Belinda, did you want to see what it should look like, or what it looks like now ??? why
I am good with either or both views....


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Too early outside yet, but I do have my seedling room up and running. clap Planted onions from seed, a first and got some broccoli and cauliflower started. Going to plant some more seeds today, YEAH!!


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before and after sounds fun :) just after will be fine,

inside today way too windy to be out :(


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OK, this crazy weather we are having has convinced me to plant some peas and lettuce today yikes I figure a few pennies worth of seeds was worth the try. I am sure we are going to have a blizzard before spring is really here, but on the "back" side of our green house, the north side also, my DH put in particle board, rather than the corragated plastic, because our neighbor has 3 grandsons who visit a lot and a ball could easily break the plastic, but not the particle board. And the sun really did not shine that much on the north side anyway. So on the inside of the particle board he put black tar paper, so that bed is thawed! In the other 2 beds, the ground is still frozen in the center, but the back side seems to be ok. AND, as I was talking with a quilt customer today, I told her I was playing hookie from my work and working out in the green house. Well, she plants by the moon and today, according to her moon book, is a good day to plant! So I've got seeds planted outside in the ground, never thought I could do it so early, and it may not work, but I will keep you posted!


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Taking all the houseplants out and giving a good watering, planting potatoes, doing what Suzydaze did with banana trees.

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I have what I think is a 5 gallon plastic bucket. This evening after supper I filled it with weeds & what dead flowers that I didnt cut down last fall. Next up is killing the weeds I let grow up in my biggest mulched area in the back so I can re-mulch later this spring.

Tonight I really need to find my planting schematics that I made so I will know what flowers I need to re-buy this year.


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Just weeded the tomato garden. Back is in great pain, but it's such good therapy for the soul and much needed nowadyas!


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I am hauling topspol into my flower beds right now.
Stopped for a drink...Water

Yep kills all the winter blues .......an helps the heart an soul.

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Yes, it is very good for the soul---I know it helped me. I am glad you got to do that today, Lynne. thumbup

Dodge, I think right now, I am going to find my schematics--(well at least look for them)----I really do need to know what is weeds & what might be young flowers.

I bought a container of Violas today. Tonight they will go in the front bed to be with my wild violets when they bloom. The Violets are jsut now poking out of the soil (I added some loose dirt a month or so ago. Oh, how I LOVE spring !!!!


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My violets are blooming the ones that are up. Everything is looking so pretty after the last rain we got.


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wow yours are blooming?? Great !!! thumbup

well, I DID plant my voila--& while I didn't find the schematic from 2011, I did find the one from 2010. Not that it will help me really, as I added new perennials last year.--oh well, as my DH says, it is early yet---

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I am so glad your both enjoying the season......Gods gifts to the universe.
I was thinking of that today as I walked past mine for the umpteenith time.

Too pooped to pop after supper, but went back out to stroll again. ahhhhhhhhhhh

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Thats great.. Did you just plant it now or last fall?
I never seen a tree one. Are they hardy in zone 5?

Thats so pretty.. Glad your out an about. I planted onion sets in my flower beds today.
Maybe lettuce 2maro.

Keep showing us

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Thanks Dodge,,, I Bought it today on my lunch break @ Lowes,, only hardy to 34 degrees,, I will protect it as much as I can next winter,,


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Now will it bloom all summer for you?
Is it just as hot at your new location?
Wonder how tall it grows

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it can get big,,, I can control that by pruning,, it's suppose to bloom thru fall,, yep it's just as hot,, I only moved 8 miles from where I lived before.


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Enjoy it .. Give us an up date in a couple months..

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Those are so nice to see.
Do you have any deer running around the area ?
Something ate my white crocus last nite.

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Originally Posted by dodge
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Those are so nice to see.
Do you have any deer running around the area ?
Something ate my white crocus last nite.

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Thanks dodge, no deer, I'm out too much in the open. Not close to any woods


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today after the rain I weeded some more and then my DH & I put some round-up on the weeds in my mulched area---now to hope it does nto rain for a spell---when the weeds have all died, I will buy some more mulch---


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Yup, must have been the start of spring yesterday, my peas and lettuce poked up through the ground! applaud And I got my worm farm from the UPS man yesterday and the worms will come either today or tomorrow. I am blessed to have a neighbor that will pick up my worms at the post office and dump them in my worm farm because we will be gone....leaving in a few hours. We are weighing the pros and cons about taking our motorcycles!!! In March....in Wyoming?!? The weather is supposed to be nice this week.

Sunflowers....72? Got any snow left? I hope it doesn't melt too fast for you,

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How long does it take for that much snow to melt?


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I got some seeds planted,, cleome, Osteospermums ,cone flowers,, zinnia the seeds are over 3 years old so we'll see what happens


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Let us know what happens.......HD always said they are still ok to use.
I dodnt always use year old ones.

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Originally Posted by angelblossom
I got some seeds planted,, cleome, Osteospermums ,cone flowers,, zinnia the seeds are over 3 years old so we'll see what happens

Last year I read lots of books from the library and one of them was Gardening by the Square Yard and it actually had a list of seeds and how many years they will last. So if I have any doubts I look at that book in the library! I would be more concerned with vegiesm but with flowers, I would think that if they start to grow you have it made!


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Reshaping the front bed today, transplanting bleeding hearts and day lilies also.


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been out digging this morning, been digging all week end. I'm about to get all my bulbs dug up to move and it rained some today so I'll be able to move them easier now clap


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picked my first lettuce and radishes today!!!! Also I was able to water my plants in the green house with the water barrels my DH fixed up bop Other than that I just admired my growing vegies clap


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Same here...digging, raking and general clean up.


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I hope that means you were feeling better today, Sunflowers. I worked my job harder than outside, but did get my lawn and flower beds fed!


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Thought I'd show off the work from today...

Shape of the new bed on the side of the house. Ignore the size of the Rhodies...I'm just waiting for them to bloom so I can trim them back.
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Luke "helping" by playing with plastic flower pots
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Front bed completely dug out...
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New bed around tree completed...
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Don't work too hard Sunny--there is always tomorrow after all.....

Looking good Jenn----and lucky you to have not one but two helpers... thumbup

Today I planted 12 asparagus plants...


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We had an asparagus patch at our old house. Loved having it there. We often had to give bunches of asparagus away tho...we couldn't eat it fast enough!! :lol:


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Originally Posted by hisgal2
We often had to give bunches of asparagus away tho...we couldn't eat it fast enough!! :lol:


Did you ever try freezing it for winter use ?? I do not see why that would not work...
I think I will try that next year--(not supposed to harvest any this year)


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That is going to be beautiful Jen...great job thumbup



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That looks terrific, Jenn.


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Originally Posted by JunieGirl


Did you ever try freezing it for winter use ?? I do not see why that would not work...
I think I will try that next year--(not supposed to harvest any this year)


No. I never tried to freeze it. My mom took some and canned it, but I didn't like it canned.


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Today I went to a friend's house and got a truck load of aged horse poo. Now to lay all of my paper down and spread it out. Yay!!


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My husband won't share the horse poo, he needs it to fertilize our feed fields.

Today I am expanding my vegetable garden..one scoop of sod at a time. I need more room for potatoes. What I wouldn't do for a small tiller.


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Originally Posted by Sunflowers

Today I am expanding my vegetable garden..one scoop of sod at a time. I need more room for potatoes. What I wouldn't do for a small tiller.


Expanding your garden--wonderful---I used to raise potatoes--we usually had enough to eat until sometime in january. WE kept them in our cellar--but any cool place would work. I had them laying all seperate so if there was a bad one it would not spoil others. gee they were good.

We had a small tiller--my dad gave it to us---But since my DH does not like to keep anything he is not using daily, he gave it to my DD--and LORD knows she is not using it. I complained, so when we moved my garden, he cut the size in half--I guess now I cant say we need one, huh ??----- rspb


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Sunflowers, I came across a vertical option for potatoes a couple weeks ago. I pinned it on my pinterest board so I'll have it when I'm ready to try potatoes in a year or two....

Growing potatoes vertically


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Oh well Carol, no tiller means less work for you thumbup

Jenn, that's a great idea. Here you can buy the special bags that zip open at the end of season..the potatoes just fall out. I've also grown them in a bag of soil when I was a Spark/Brownie leader.

I dug out a new 4ft by 12 ft section today...whoohoo.


Oh, DH came in and said it was 5ft by 14ft.. lol Time to measure my garden.

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I was informed my plants were afflicted with a form of Rust Fungus. Trimmed them back more than I would have liked and went to buy some fungicide. I'm worried for my plants! ; ;


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Originally Posted by Sunflowers

Oh, DH came in and said it was 5ft by 14ft.. lol Time to measure my garden.


well I would not have used the tiller anyway--DH would not have let me----

5 by 14 huh?? and now you know the size of my new garden----but I think I am going to grow myself some potatoes in a tub this year---at the end of season I can dump the soil out in our very low yard----although that wire thing that Jenn posted about looks interesting for sure.....


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Fungus and bugs are nasty.

Oh I also couldn't figure out why I couldn't get rid of 'white fly' by my old white fence. Well when I took the fence apart to make the new one I noticed...the white flies had nested under the plastic caps that cover the 4 by 4 posts. It was full.

So last night, I cut the rose bush to the ground, sprayed it with horticultural oil..then dug up and moved the old soil and plants and chucked them. They were overgrown anyway..hoping that solves the problem.

I just need to divide some perennials from another spot to refill the new bed.


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Yesterday I filled the bed of our pick-up truck with aged horse poo, laid newspaper over the front bed that I dug out the other day, and spread out the poo. I had just enough to complete the front bed and get the first 3 feet of the next bed done.

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I planted early and late potatoes, red varieties. Norland and Red Pontiac, never planted that kind before.

Today I also divided and moved some daylilies...slowly getting things in order.


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Today we sat and watched the rain.


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Originally Posted by hisgal2
Today we sat and watched the rain.


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Originally Posted by hisgal2
Today we sat and watched the rain.
I get to do that tomorrow.


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My newest project...just have to decide what to plant. I am thinking lupines.

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sunflower that is differnt an very pretty.........Bet you will have a fun thing there.
Show the progress later.
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yes, I certainly agree with Barb--that is so nice---
I cannot wait to see progress pictures either...

I think if I were you, this fall when you clean off your yard, I would put the fence in the barn to protect it from the weather---then jsut put it back out next year---


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Looks great, Sunflowers!!! Can't wait to see what you do with it!!


Stephen's uncle owns a huge greenhouse down in Altoona (2 hours south of where we live), so my mother-in-law, the kids, and I piled into the van last night and drove down there. Today we all dug around in his compost pile and collected 6 flats and 2 trash bags full of spring bulbs that he threw away last week. After the bulb plants wilt, they just throw them all away. They don't mind us going down and digging them all up. If the weather is nice tomorrow, I'll be planting an incredible amount of bulbs into the front flower bed that I just re-shaped. It's a mystery as to what exactly all of the different bulbs are tho. It'll be a great big surprise next spring when they all start coming up! lol

I also got 5 hanging baskets for the porch. They are all different and sooooo pretty. I'll get pictures for you all to see tomorrow. They are 8" baskets (I believe) and he gave me the fabulous family price of $5/basket!!!! shock I'm happy to have some color in the front now!! ...now to get Stephen to put in 2 more hooks for me! LOL!!

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WOW< Thant is fantastic, jenn--Good for you---
I cannot wait for the pictures--or for next spring !!!


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Everyone has been so busy, quite a project, Jenn. Great deal on those hanging baskets! Your landscaping project is going to look wonderful! I LOVE the bed with the fence in the back, Sunflowers. What a cute idea.

The only thing I have done with my flower beds is clean them all up. Not quite ready to put my seedling flowers out yet. Sometimes I think I could do it early this year and then we have weather predictions like we have for tonight... snow and 33 degrees egad Guess it is still just a tad early for outside. But the greenhouse is doing great and all beds are ready to plant!


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The kids' Alyssum sprouted while we were gone
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One of the Rhody bushes bloomed
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Wowee what a great haul Jenn....beautiful flowers.


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boy those baskets are pretty. I've got to pick up a few. You've got your work cut out for you with all those bulbs.

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nice baskets, Jenn and what a surprise it will be next spring when all those mystery bulbs begin to bloom!


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Today I hoed some grass out of the garden. Tomorrow we're going to tiller between the rows again.



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I planted green pepper seeds in peat pots yesterday.


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Today I hoed the rest of the grass out of the garden and Johnny tillered. I'm going to make some insecticidal soap tomorrow.



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Today I repotted some water lilies and fed them all with tomato spikes. Some have buds reaching for the water surface already. Then I dug up about 25 columbine seedlings and replanted them. Dug up and replanted a small varigated yucca, same for a fern, and weeded a bit. Last thing I did was feed my fish - fun!


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Gosh are the hanging baskets gorgous.. Puts mine to shame.

What I did in the garden today. flowers.. Of course I am way behind you in season. I did one bed , taking out grass an weeds an hoeing it. Then I put the poppy seeds to work. Hoping them make a good show, or maybe a good fool of me>LOL

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Wrote a card that said, thinking of you on moms day......You do give motherly advice.LOL
Bet she will laugh at that one.

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Gosh are the hanging baskets gorgous.. Puts mine to shame.



You can't be *that* far from Altoona!! Take a drive! :)



Today Stephen and I picked up another truck load of horse poo. Then I shoveled the ash that came from about 1 1/2 tons of coal from our stove this winter (I shoveled the ash from the first ton and a half a couple weeks ago). I transplanted 5 (I think) bleeding hearts from the side bed that we were working on today. I will be surprised if they survive the transplant this year, but the roots are old roots, so I don't doubt that they'll come up next year. Then Stephen and I worked together on reshaping the side bed, laying the newspapers, and shoveling the just over a ton of horse poo onto the side bed. We also worked on placing the pre-formed pond that I found after the flood into the side bed.

We don't have the money to do both my cold frames AND the pump etc needed for the pond, so I have to choose one for this season and one for next season. I'm going to choose the cold frames (not that the functionality of the cold frame itself is really needed anymore this year) so that I can grow veggies that we eat. In the mean time, I'm doing research on keeping ponds without fountains or moving water free from algea and mosquito eggs and larvae by using fish and plants. We'll see what I found out.

Pictures of the new bed will come tomorrow. By the time we finally got it all done, it was past 9 tonight and was too dark for picture taking. :)


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Can't wait for the pictures, jenn.

Today was a work at Mom's house.
My brother suggested that the whole family put in $20.00 each and then we buy my mom a few bushes & some flowers for her yard & then we all go and do her yard work as he Mother's day gift, since dad is no longer around to do it for her, . . Daddy will be gone 2 years this next November, and it was a good idea.

So my part was:
I cleaned out a large concrete basket of hers & planted some new petunias that were left over from other areas into it. then a bunch of us weeded the pea gravel in the landscaping under it....
I then cleaned out a 6 pointed star flower bed that my dad had made Momma & filled it with flowers. We divided her hosta, & added them, some petunas & some marigolds to it.. My DH & my SIL leveled her hugh bird bath that was in the middle of it. Also, several of the guys helped me to weed it and then 3 of them came & turned over all of the soil inside of the bed before I planted.

Finally my Niece, my SIL, my BIL & myself weeded the flower bed that is all along the garage. so I had a full day---What I did was just a small part of all the work that was done---

I told everyone that we should do this next year & that there would not be so much to be done each time if we did it every year---

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What a great Mother's day gift, Carol. I bet your mom was thrilled!

Barb, what a thoughtful gesture and I isn't it wonderful to have great neighbors!

I worked hard yesterday getting caught up with work, but did get outside and planted more radish, kale, lettuce and spinach seeds in the ground. We got the outside bed ready to be planted with cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage plants that I started from seed. We created a hoop over the bed with orange fencing so the deer and antelope can't get to the plants. Last year I didn't think about it, had potatoes in that bed last year and I guess the animals don't care for potatoes! Was going to plant corn and realized there would be no way to keep the critters away! Going to transplant some more tomatoes and cucumbers into the green house today and plant some green beans! Ate a few more radishes and snap peas last night with dinner. grin

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Wow, such busy ladies.

Beautiful pics Dodge...very sweet of you to think of your widow friend kissie

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