Ugh

I've been watering all my trees and flowers about every other day.  Nothing grew in the veggie garden so I've given up on that.  But I have to remember that there are other bushes and flowering plants on the outside of the garden fence.  I need to water them, too.  I dug up some kind of green plant that took over my front bed.  I got the plant as a baby from one of the garden club ladies. It must have like that spot because it grew to 3 foot high and 3 foot wide.  I had to get it out of there, it looked terrible.  In the next few weeks I'm going to separate the daffadils and irises and move them to the north hill.  The bearded irises that I moved last fall are doing great over there.  I'm going to put weed and feed on the front hill so maybe I can get some grass growing out there.
Good luck to me.

Life Happens

I've decided not to have a vegetable garden next year.  It's just to much work for my schedule.  I'm going to work on getting the soil better.  After I harvest what did grow this year, I'm going to mow down everything, put down newspapers cover it with straw then bring in some soil that I'm going to buy at Pioneed sand.  I want to build another raised bed, too. (If I can talk Larry into helping). 
Today, I worked on the flower bed and dug up some huge plant that I'm not sure what it was.  I used the grass scissors and cut around all the young trees and the daffadils I transplanted last year.  They are doing great on the hill by the trees.  I'm going to dig up the irises and daffadils in the front bed and put them on the hill.
I'm hoping to dig up the potentilla plants this week if I have any free time.  They aren't doing very good where they are at right now.
I want to dig up the pine bush something or other that is on the corned of my flower bed.  It's got a wild grape vine invading it.  Not sure what I'm going to do with it.
It's getting colder every night.  I wonder if we will have anymore high warm ups.

Cucumber

Transplanted pumpkin, cucumber and tomatoes today.  Also, moved some wine colored bearded irises to the outside fence line of the garden.  The corn is coming up and so are the yellow onions.

Cauliflower

I planted my cauliflower babies in the garden this morning. I think they are hardened off but to be sure I covered them with cut milk jugs. I got the tractor sprinkler going yesterday. Slowly I'm getting everything in the ground. Tonight I will transplant the broccoli and maybe cantaloupe.

Sprouts

We have sprouts of radishes and lettuce.  Can't wait to have a home grown salad.

Finally planted

May 23 I finally planted my onions and my raised bed.  I managed to till a little bit yesterday.  It's raining good tonight.  I'm hoping to get my corn planted tomorrow.  Right now the corn is soaking.  We'll see if it works.

Put some plants in the front porch planters but some of them didn't survive the transplant.  Add some more on Sunday but I still need to replace some.

Weather

This April and now May has been crazy when it comes to weather. We had blizzards, rain, very high winds even a snow day for the kids, I haven't had any time to work on my raised bed. I did manager to get some more seeds started inside but none outside. I think that's ok though because of the freezing temps especially at night.

Our first raised bed

Yesterday, we built our first raised bed.  We attached hardware cloth to the bottom to keep out the critters.   It was pretty simple and I plan on making some more.  This week I will haul some soil from the uneven part of the garden to put in the bed along with some compost and other amendments.

Babies

My tomatoes, peppers, cauliflower and broccoli have sprouted.  Now to start all the other things I want to plants.  It's been cold and windy here and I've had no time to dig outside yet.  I need to get my raspberry bushes planted.  They are sprouting out of the package.  I want to get at least one raised bed built but Larry says we need to buy a blade for the saw.  I have to cut some  used boards in half.

Seed Starting and planning

Finally it was nice enough last week to clean the shed and make room for the wood stove that was in the basement.  Now I have more room for all my craft stuff, sewing machine, girl scout stuff and garden/seed starting stuff.
The big glass door downstairs is perfect to set the seedling in front of.  I started broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes and peppers this past week.  The girls also planted some flowers in pots.  After 5 days the broccoli is sprouting. 
I started digging up the garden so I can get it level and put in my first raised bed.  I'm just going to use left over wood and the dirt from my existing garden.  I'm going to buy some things to add to the dirt.  I haven't decided what I'm going to plant in my first raised bed.  Hmmmm Maybe tomatoes.  Or maybe a variety of plants.
I bought 2 raspberry bushes, seed potatoes, onions, garlic and 3 rhubarb bulbs at Lowe's.  I hope they grow.  I wonder if the garlic will last until fall when you are supposed to plant them.  I guess I should read up on garlic just to make sure.

Spring fever

I am so ready for warm weather even if it's 55 degrees.  I want to get out in the garden and make a small lasagna garden.  I want to take a small corner of the garden, layer some newspaper, dirt and green to see how long it will break down.  I'm hoping if I get it done by the end of February it will be decomposed by planting time which is May 14.  That's about 10 weeks.  This weekend I want to clean up my spot in the basement so I can start my plants.  Mike from Spencer's garden center visited our garden club meeting.  He spoke about seed starting and what to do.  I learned that new seedlings need 18 hours of light.  New plants should be completely root bound before transplanting.  After they are about an inch or two tall I should put an oscillating fan on them so they will get strong to withstand the outdoor wind.  He also said that you should use seed starting mix and no soil.  Can't wait to get started.

Valentine's Day

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!  Today it is very windy and bitterly cold.  Usually around this time I'm itching to get my plants started.  This year I've had some medical issues which made me sick alot with no energy.  The doc finally figured out that I am B12 deficient.  No wonder I haven't had the energy to garden or keep up with it.  I've had my first B12 shot but no energy yet.  Once I get my energy back up I'm hoping to have the best garden ever. 

March first I will start my tomatoes, pumpkin, cantalope, cucumber, zuchini, squash just to name a few.  My goal is to have my spot in the basement all cleaned up and ready for some planting.