I hate to call spring already, but things are definitely thawing out (and I saw a bunch of motorcycles out today–a surer sign of spring than robins). I was outside doing my post-winter dog area cleanup (ugh). While outside, I took a look around the yard. The blueberries were eaten …
As mentioned earlier in the season, I bought a couple of tomato teepees. I never did make a final assessment of them, so here goes. I started the plants in the teepees in early May. By the end of the month, the plants were huge–way bigger than the non-teepee plants. …
The nice weather is almost coming to an end, but I have hopes for a few more nice days so I can do more outside work before the snow arrives. Today, I planted garlic. Brian turned over the garden for me last weekend, so the soil was all nice and …
As mentioned in my last post, I spent some time dividing perennials. Brian helped with some of the larger ones. My goal was to make the pond area symmetrical plant-wise. Mission accomplished. I originally tried doing a random planting thing there, but I’m not a random type of girl, so …
The past few weeks, I have been doing cleanup–taking out dead plants, weeding, dividing perennials, etc. Fun stuff. Fall cleanup in the township is next week, so I’m trying to wrap things up by then. The weather has been pretty nice so far this month. We’ve had a few days …