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Well, Sean, my mailman drove in the laneway on Friday. Generally I pick up at the superbox a few kilometers along the road to town. He handed me a box from the West coast - stuffed with corms and bee balm plugs. Then he said, "Happy planting!"
Yup, spring is sort of here. Yesterday ... and I may be nuts ... but I am sure I spotted an Osprey. I was about 15' away when he started from a fence post overlooking the river ... and he was slow to rise with a huge fish in his talons. Today a warbler. Spring.
Back to the nitty gritty here ... certainly not my orderly, managed gardens of last year.
With the manager's permission, I scrounged 6 skids and some boards from behind Canadian Tire to build some cold composts for rough garden waste. Leftover materials can be used as a base for the woodpile for next winter.
Mud slingin' and fun ... like being a kid again, in rainboots, slopping home from school via the ditches ... you know what I mean
Years of snowploughs overshooting the lane and pushing boulders and aggregate into the natural drainage ditches and lack of maintenance have caused surface water to accumulate around the well - not good. No icy soakers so far
The forecast tells me that the geraniums can go outside during the day tomorrow, so I will work on a shelter overtop the trailer to protect them from windchill and overnight frost.
For scale ... the thunbergia trellis height is 4'8" from floor. Picture it totally covered in foliage and blooms until frost next fall.
The twig trellis came alive in the warmth inside. The twigs' leaves and blossoms tell me they are from a pin cherry.
Fresh hoof prints in the laneway this morning ... looked to me like large with small following close.
Note to pups ... wake me earlier in the morning and remind me to look outside first, then get my coffee
Yup, spring is sort of here. Yesterday ... and I may be nuts ... but I am sure I spotted an Osprey. I was about 15' away when he started from a fence post overlooking the river ... and he was slow to rise with a huge fish in his talons. Today a warbler. Spring.
Back to the nitty gritty here ... certainly not my orderly, managed gardens of last year.
With the manager's permission, I scrounged 6 skids and some boards from behind Canadian Tire to build some cold composts for rough garden waste. Leftover materials can be used as a base for the woodpile for next winter.
Mud slingin' and fun ... like being a kid again, in rainboots, slopping home from school via the ditches ... you know what I mean
Years of snowploughs overshooting the lane and pushing boulders and aggregate into the natural drainage ditches and lack of maintenance have caused surface water to accumulate around the well - not good. No icy soakers so far
The forecast tells me that the geraniums can go outside during the day tomorrow, so I will work on a shelter overtop the trailer to protect them from windchill and overnight frost.
For scale ... the thunbergia trellis height is 4'8" from floor. Picture it totally covered in foliage and blooms until frost next fall.
The twig trellis came alive in the warmth inside. The twigs' leaves and blossoms tell me they are from a pin cherry.
Fresh hoof prints in the laneway this morning ... looked to me like large with small following close.
Note to pups ... wake me earlier in the morning and remind me to look outside first, then get my coffee