I DON'T HAVE TIME!!

I don't have time to tend to my garden.  I'm either working or doing family stuff.  Somebody always has something going on.  It's still fairly nice out and we've had some warm days in the 60's.  Why didn't I go out to the garden and get it set for a long winter nap. 
I want to do so much but can't squeeze it all in.  Oh well.  One day at a time.

Garden Club Meeting

Falcon Garden Club meeting was this past Saturday.  We had a few new faces in the crowd.  We discussed coordinating a permiculture class for the whole town.
Heidi Ring had a giant house plant sale at her house and donated the money to the garden club.  Thank you Heidi!!!  I bought 6 plants that I'm not sure what they are but I'm gonna search and find out. 
Nadine did a talk about putting your beds and garden to rest for the winter.  Robin talked briefly about her success in her garden over the past year. 

It's Winter

It's a week before Thanksgiving and I didn't get my garden to be before winter.  I didn't get my onions out and I didn't till in the manure or cover with straw.  I'm ashamed to be the Falcon Garden Club president.  I will try harder next year.  I know I know I said that last year.  But this year will be different. I promise (myself).

Garden Club

The garden club had a great Secret Garden Tour. Right after that we went on vacation. I come back to a garden full of weeds. I still haven't had time to weed or till. The veggies aren't growing very good anyway because it hasn't been hot enough. I don't know if I will get any tomatoes or corn. I had lots of green beans when I got back from vacation.
The next event for the garden club is the member appreciation brunch. The new board had meeting and worked out all the details of the upcoming events. One of the board members was a little frustrated that the past board just dumped everything on us and we don't have a clue. But we got it all worked out and things are good. I picked up some gift card for tour gifts.

Oh my

This summer has just flown by. I became the president of the Falcon Garden Club. I've been to several events for the club including the Falcon Festival.
My garden is slow growing. I didn't get things growing early inside and outside it's been to cool for anything to really grow. By now the plants should be at least 2 foot high and there not. We've had maybe 15 days on and off of hot weather. Today it's cool and windy. I have managed to aquire some large plants to put around the outside of my garden fence to make a living windbreak. I got the large windmill fixed and up. I have to move a post and center my archway at the door of my garden. I bought some seeds of vine plants to put around the arch. I want to make my veggie garden whimsical. I'm going to decorate the fence and maybe even put in bench.
We almost have a flag pole up on our front hill. We are going to buy pavers to make a flower bed around the pole then I'm planting bearded irises in it.

Too busy

I can't seem to get my garden planted. Yesterday I planted the squash plants that I started from seed. I planted some potatoes last week. I have a bunch of plants started from seed but I haven't had time to put them in the ground.

No time for seed starting

Usually I have my seed started by now but I just haven't had time. With Larry being gone every week for six weeks it takes alot more of my time to keep the kids and house moving along. I've been working on getting the basement set up for the new seeds but it's been a slow process. It is warm today so I hope I can get the seed starting stuff out of the shed, cleaned up and ready to use. I have to order a part for the rototiller before I can use it. A couple of weeks ago I managed to get a load of aged horse manure and threw it on the garden. I just need to get it tilled in.
I ask for time to get the basement cleaned up and my plants started.

Seeds starting soon...

Yesterday I got out in the garden for a little while. I got really sick last fall and failed to winterize the garden. the kids moved all the tires. I pulled up the stakes and picked up trash. It's going to need some extra attention this spring. I need to order a tine for the rototiller. I want to build a 3 compartment compost bin with the free wood we got last year. I want to plant very tall plants along the garden fence line to block the wind.
My sister-in-law has to move in with us for a little while so I have to clean out our shed and move a bunch of our stuff in there to make room for her. All the garden stuff for seed starting has to come in. I'm running a little behind on the planning. I just haven't had time. Larry has been gone during the week because of his job so it makes like harder on me. He is so much help. The chimney top disappeared and a bird ended up down the chimney and in our wood stove. Larry wasn't here so I had to call one of his friends to come get it out. I wasn't touching it.
It is very windy here today. Last week I managed to do some winter watering. It was very nice and in the 60's. Some of the little blue spruce trees look like they didn't make it through the winter but I'm hoping they come back. Their needles are brown. I can't wait until I see new plants immerging from the ground.

Garden Club Meeting

I went to the garden club meeting yesterday. It's so wonderful to hang out with people of all ages that have the same interests as me. The speaker was a lady from a local landscaping company. She talked about the steps to creating your garden and landscaping. She talked about different types and shapes of gardens. What I learned first is if you are starting from scratch you should always lay out the grass first. And make sure you don't have a patch of grass here and a patch of grass there. It should be a good size area of grass or it will look at of place. Also, you should use your house as the back drop not just part of the flower bed next to the house. She mentioned retaining walls a little bit. Retaining walls are important to hold the soil but can also be decorative. If you are not sure how to build one, you should get a professional to install it because if it's not right it won't hold as long as they should. She said that many manufacturers of stones have how-to's on their websites. Here is her company's website http://www.accentlandscapesinc.com/