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.

April 18th

Last of the onions are in. My Walla Walla Sweets from seeds were the last to go in. One of these days I'll get the tomatoes in. I can't get in too big a hurry though or else I'll kill them.

Garage got cleaned up enough to actually store some of these garden tools. Slowly working on plans for landscaping the rest of the yard...

April 17th

I did more planting yesterday...

Red Pontiac Potatoes
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage

I'm trying to start the cabbage and brussels sprouts from seed in the garden. I have no idea how they will fair. The tomatoes in the green house are doing well. No black frozen spots at this point. My tomatillos are starting to bloom. Oops. I guess they got started too early. Oh well.

I also planted some yellow iris yesterday. My neighbor was dividing hers up. They also brought over a Snow in the Valley. That might not be the right name. At any rate it is supposed to spread and only get about a foot tall. I'm going to try to get that planted this weekend too. We are going to try to get it to hide the foundation along the road side of the house.

Been rainy and cold, but this weekend is supposed to be warm with a few showers. Mid-60s yesterday. Not bad.

April 10th

Planted another row of onions today. Just a basic yellow onion that should keep better than the Walla Wallas. Also, I spent nap time re-potting my tomatoes. Holy cow I have a bunch! I'm testing one flat of them in the greenhouse. It seems to be staying pretty warm (this is relative) at night in there. I keep forgetting to actually look at the thermometer. I have seeds germinating and leaves popping out on the lilacs that are in the greenhouse at any rate. It can't be too cold in there at night.

I'm just waiting on it to quit freezing so many nights before I continue planting the garden. I do wish I didn't have to work so much. I would get much more work on the garden done if I weren't working. Oh well. I will just have to enjoy my weekends.

Weather update April 5th

Rain, snow, and freezing weather. I knew it would do it if I planted seeds. I have a few calendula seeds coming up in a box on the south side of the house, but the garden isn't poking up yet. I wouldn't if I were them. We've had some strange spring weather. But my mom was just saying the other day that instead of "April showers bring May flowers" it is "April snows bring May rose." Seems like it might be the way it is going this year anyway.

Other than that my tomatoes need re-potted and all the bushes have leaves budding. I guess spring really has sprung.