FishinBC's Blog

Off topic rant...
Jun 25, 2007 | 11:58 AM PST
Tags: vegetable garden , Uninvited Guest

My Saturday started out just the way I wanted it, I had bought some marked down cone flowers and brown eyed susans at Lowes on the way home Friday night.  Got up had my tea and began preparing the places I planned on putting them.  After getting them in, I did some weeding and clean up around the outside.  We have a house full coming for Fourth of July week and I want everything looking nice, so I had my whole list to work on all week.  Ryan helped put up the last of the decorations while I finished up watering and weeding.

Hubby’s cousin had come recently and spent a few days with us on Memorial weekend and happened to buy a new pickup.  He left his old one at our house and planned to swing by sometime soon and pick it up.  No problem.  I asked DH to move it off the back drive way so that I could blow off the debris from the rain and clean up the back.  He called his cousin to just check about something with the gear shift.  C

Cousin informs DH that not to worry, his mom, dad, brother, the granddaughter and the dog are on their way from Georgia to pick the truck up!!  No notice, no phone call to ask if we were busy, no courtesy whatsoever!!  Just planned to bring a car full of bodies and show up on my door step unannounced!!  I was soooo peeved.  DH took one look at my mood and began cleaning house.  I am still fuming at the lack of courtesy.  I would not have minded them coming, really.  But they could have called first!!!  We would have not known at all if hubby hadn’t called the cousin.  Am I wrong??!!?? 

 

So now I have three beds that I have to strip and wash before the INVITED company comes.  Plus all the stuff I was planning to due this weekend before his aunt showed up on my door step.  Okay…I vented and am better now.

 

My newest daylilies that I had ordered are going to bloom soon!!!  I am really surprised.  I put in those marked down perennials and steaked one dahlia that was getting heavy.  The veggie patch is doing wonderful.  I have about eight good size tomatoes blushing up and loads of green ones.  Should have a few zukes to grill out on the 4th and lot’s of banana peppers.  The bell peppers are swelling and it will be no time at all for them.  Next year there are no ifs ands or buts, we must have a bigger veggie patch.  Picked some blackberries before the critters got them and had them I my cereal.  Everything else is just watering, monitoring and deadheading.  

 

Thanks for listening to my rant gang!  Hope you all have a wonderful 4th of July!

Where the heck did spring go??
Apr 12, 2007 | 12:13 PM PST
Tags: freeze , birds , garden , vegetable garden , veggies , Pond , Lotus , japanese maple , sod , containers

Another night below freezing last night and another to come Saturday night, will spring ever come back???  They even said the words “snow flurries” for Sunday!!  Whaaa!!!

Okay, still waiting on the extra 20 yards of sod to fill the patch and trim out the rest.  Rain again is keeping them from cutting the sod.  The rest of the grass we have put down is looking great.  What a difference in the front yard it makes. 

All my container plants were hold up in the garage again last night.  I will take them out again for the day as soon as it warms up.  We have given up on the rest other than the tomatoes and peppers.  Containers in the garage, veggie bed covered and filbert covered.  For all the good it will do.  But at least it isn’t the 20 degrees or lower 5 nights in a row. 

I asked Treeman about my very sad Japanese maple, the news is not good.  I will wait a bit and keep an eye on it but odds are its toast.  Thanks, Treeman for breaking it to me gently.

The birds are back at the feeders, this cold giving them an urgent need for fuel.  Some of the birder talk I get emailed to me is saying that this warm spell we had bringing everything out and now this freeze is going to hurt the birds pretty badly as well.  The new tender foliage is now brown and crunchy, leaving the insects nowhere to do their thing and that means no insects for the hungry birds sitting eggs or feeding young.  Not good.  I don’t know how much good it will do, but I will keep a close eye that my feeders are filled and have water there for the birds.

Hoping we get a bit of a break in the rain we are suppose to get this weekend, so that I can pull up or cut back damaged flowers and access what to do now in my flower beds.  Most of the annuals are toast.  I planted those just for instant gratification.  I really want to get serious and plan out some nice perennials.

The pond is doing well.  The lotus was trying to put up shoots when the freeze happened.  I had sunk it deeper in the water to protect it and checked it last night and it is still okay.  The lilies slowed down but are okay and the four leaf clover is doing well too.  The cannas slowed too but are fine, since I threw them in a cooler with the pond grasses and stuck them in the garage.  The pond nursery said they would have hyacinths by the end of this month, so I will head over there to get some to add to the pond soon. 

I really want spring to return soon, and not go straight into 100+ degrees with humidity.  But I am sure my wish is no different from any of us.  Hope everyone is doing well and staying warm.