Gardening, anyone?
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Our John Deere is a few years old. We don't have much grass either but we have major oak trees. I use the grass catcher on ours and its to collect leaves. I get worn out getting on and off tractor as first of spring I am sucking up leaves so much that the two bins fill within a 30' run. But its worth it as we've got great compost.
The little trailer goes on sale on occasion, just keep an eye on their site.
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I love to mow the leaves in the Fall too. I just have to be very careful as the dry leaves have caught my mower on fire before. I used my jacket to put the fire out and I was very lucky it didn't catch the whole property on fire. I carry water with me when I mow leaves now
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Soil in flower bed and garden busted up for the first time this year. Will do it one last time before we plant. Trying to figure out how to get wild onions out of my garden that we can't figure out how they got there
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WenchLori- starting a fire with leaves, wow! Glad you were quick thinking and managed to get it out. I can't imagine part of my arsenal in mowing leaves is to carry water. Good to know though. Do you use your leaves for compost/mulch?
Mommyof2- wild onions are designed if you pull them, they will leave roots to survive. Best to dig up. I like to use a weed hoe. Its like a regular hoe on one side and you can flip over and it has two sharp prongs on other side. You'll have to repeat the process but the better you get the roots up, the better chances you won't have to see the little buggers again.
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Thanks for the tip.
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Hi friends- snow storm has left and chilly here, but no hard frost last night. Hope to be posting more pics soon of blooms that are coming out. All the moisture has been good this week, but cold and snow for a couple days was a BIG surprise!
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For years deer have been eating my hostas. I finally realized that the only hosta I had left was next to lily of the valley. I started planting lily of the valley near my newly planted hosta and so far the deer have stayed away. This is what it looks like.
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We have had rain, rain, rain and flooding. This is what my little town looks like today. http://www.ktlo.com/2017/04/29/pictures-from-the-flooding-in-the-area/
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Ananda, WOW! Please stay safe! We've had nothing but steady rain here also. I don't think we've had the flooding here as you have! I haven't been out to take a look around town, our pond has overrun it's banks. We have a drain off pipe at the deep end and it can't get out fast enough. No danger of the house being flooded as we are at the top of our hill. We have nothing but rain for the next 2 or 3 days if the weatherman is right.
A good thing about my straw bale garden is that all this water runs right through the bales
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Ananda, Beautiful picture of your hostas. I wish the deer would get close enough to eat some of our hosta. The previous owner planted them everywhere 😊
Jazzy, WOW! A snow storm?! Bbbrrrr! I hope all of your plants and garden survives the blast of cold weather! 🤞
My headgear that I'll be wearing as I putter around on my new mower if the rain ever stops! The dealership had aBC fundraiser for one of their employees and they had a few hats left over and they gave me one!
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Happy May Day everyone.
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Ananda, I love the sign. How true!
I had an appointment with my PS this morning and on my drive the only flooding I saw was that the creeks, streams and rivers were high and all the fields are flooded. I put a few 5 gallon buckets out in my garden to catch some rain. They are all full! I'll dump them into my huge holding tubs and start over as more rain is expected the next few days.
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Wench- I was reading about all the flooding in the Midwest. Be safe friend!
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Thank you Jazzy. Will do!
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You are all inspiring me as I listen to you planting and planning. We still were getting some frost so I'm afraid to plant anything tender but I did go to the garden center and dream last week. We've had a lot of rain here too, so I can't get out and do anything right now anyway. i see flooding in peoples yard. We don't have any accumulated water but for some reason we had two ducks in our back yard - until the dog chased them off. Its funny that he doesn't bother the rabbits or squirrels, but he really lit out after those ducks. I guess he's a bird dog.
Ananda, lilies of the valley are so pretty and smell so good but do watch their growth. They spread everywhere so you'll have to keep them in check. We've been trying to get rid of ours for years. The previous owner planted them and they had consumed the flower beds.
Lucy, I would love an espalier lemon tree. I have seen the types of lemons you can grow indoors and I've always been tempted to get one, because of course I can't grow lemons here.
Lori, love your new toy and those blackberries! Wow they are big. I look forward to seeing how your straw bale garden does.
Laughed about how dirt isn't cheap anymore. Wow, I went to a local nursery and the 4 in flowers in pots were $5.50 each and they really didn't have very many flats of flowers like in years past. I try to support the locals because they tend to have more unusual plants and more variety, but darn, at those prices I'm going to be at Walmart, Lowe's and Home Depot.
Welcome, Gardennerd. I am right there with you on gardening being therapy.
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Ananda sorry to hear but all the flooding. I have family in the midwest.
We have so far missed the bad storms. We now have baby ducks and our Heron and other water birds are back. This Saturday is our Master Gardeners' sale. I buy their hostas each year and other interesting stuff. I may try lilies of the valley but I don't like invasive plants so it's something to think about. We usually just spray all our plants with stuff that keeps deer and other Vermints from eating them. I love seeing the deer though.Cool hat Lori. He fun with Sporty,
Scottie
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We had a dream trip to France a long time ago. We saw Monet's garden in the Spring. He had a fence of espaliered apple trees. One tree was wire to be the bottom row across and then next was wired to be the top row across. It was really attractive and intricate.
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The lily of the valley I plant are in raised beds with rock and gravel surrounds. If a plant hops the rock, I just pull it up and put it in another raised bed to protect hostas and other tender plants like coral bells. I don't see them running wild yet. The one wild thing I have is wild violets. I planted one small group from a friends yard into my planter and now they grow everywhere there is enough moisture. I love those little plants. We mow them just like grass and don't worry about them because in the rural areas of Arkansas we have a saying, "If it's green, it's lawn."
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Anada - love this, " "If it's green, it's lawn."
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I also try to buy from our local nursery but they have raised their prices and the plants are much smaller. I stopped by to pick up my strawberry plants a few days ago, they were about 3" high and in 4" pots and they wanted $2.99 a plant. I'm glad I waited to check out our Menards garden center. I bought my strawberry plants from them, here are the plants I got. They are 10" tall and in 4" pots for $2.50 each. They are already blooming and have a berry or 2. I tried to get plants that hadn't bloomed yet but they didn't have any. They are big healthy plants.
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With all the rain we've gotten here it looks like the yard needs to be mowed again. Oh darn, I get to put Sporty to work lol
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WenchLori, your strawberry plants look healthy and happy. I'm gonna have to start taking pictures to share. I went to the co-op (farmers store) this morning before work with intent to pickup blueberry plants hubby has been so wanting. He'll be surprised I picked up.
He has been SO good with this journey with breast cancer. He doesn't say much at all (which worried me some early on) but he is at every test, doctor visit, etc. even when I tell him he really doesn't need to go. Its the little things and of late he has spoiled me in the most subtle ways.
And . . . for me . . . at the co-op I picked a lemon thyme, Agapanthus and some bush type squash I've never tried before. I'm feeling experimental today.
Have a great garden day!!
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Jazzy ..very pretty !
Gardennerd ..I just love agapanthus ..we put in another 10 last week ..
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Last year I planted dwarf daylily, just four small plants. They loved the soil I planted them in so this year I dug them up, separated the clumps and planted them in another area. I truly hate full sized day lily but these miniatures are terrific. They take full sun and moderate shade. When the finish blooming the leaves still look great.
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Jazzy, oooooh purpleand hot pink! ! I love them!
Gardennerd, my DH has been spoiling me for the past year. He surprises me more and more everyday. I'd love to go to a farmers market but not sure if there's one close by. I'll have to check in to it.
I've been working on my plant markers for the garden today. There's a lot of painting still to be done. Here's a little preview.
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Thank you KB, my DH wants me to make them to sell. It's a lot of work, I'd have to take orders or paint several of each one in order to do that. But a good idea just the same 😊
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Just a thought . . .
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WenchLori - love the markers. Put mine to shame. I use large plastic spoons from Walmart that are like the old fashioned wooden spoons we used for big stirring. I write on the spoon curve with marker and the long handle is my stick. Hmmm? not nearly as interesting.
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Bought the planter a week or so ago and found the perfect succulents for it today at a huge display of plants at the local Albertsons. Perfect for my patio table!
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