May 28th

Rain, rain, rain... It has been raining all week and looks to rain all next week too. This has its benefits as I haven't had to water my garden for about a week and a half. The drawback is that everything is soggy and it isn't much fun to play outside in all the wet. My clay soil really doesn't help draining the water away. Ahh well.

We did get some more plants today. Mostly flowers. We are trying to perk up the side of the house toward the road. People drive past it all the time and it has been very dull. Speaking of that side of the house... The currant bush I put in last year is going great guns this year. I'm going to have a small bumper crop of currants. My raspberries on the other side of the house are doing well too. The blueberries, not so much. I'm not sure what the problem there is. Maybe they don't like the drainage or something. Who knows?

Oh, we whacked our rose bush this year. It won't be pretty this year at all, but will hopefully come back nice and strong next year.

Off to hang out with my husband for the evening...

May 15th

And we are officially all planted. We have been working like crazy on the garden and yard. There is a new flower bed on the south side of the house, I have a couple of new bushes in, and the veggie garden is complete. Now if I can just keep the weeds down.

I guess the veggies aren't quite complete. I still need to finish caging tomatoes and trellising cucumbers. Otherwise they are done though. We have added some raised beds that a friend gave me a kit for. Now I have pretty flowers along my fence and we are adding a seating area to the back yard. I do need to get going on the front yard. I've kinda neglected it. At least the lilacs are up there and are about to bloom. I love spring!

May 2nd

Rain... We've had a lot of rain here lately. In fact the new rain barrel I got last week is about half full and I don't even have gutters to pipe the water into it.

Peas, lettuce, and beets are up. I'm hoping to see the potatoes, cabbage, and brussels sprouts soon. The daffodils are pretty much done and the tulips aren't far behind them. Lilacs are about half leafed out and the blossoms are starting to form. The lawn needs mowed again. 2nd or 3rd time already.