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kerryh's April 2008 Entries
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Apr 21, 2008 | 3:56 PM PST
WE GOT A LITTLE SNOW YESTERDAY.... WOW SET TWO RECORDS ...COLDEST PLACE IN THE COUNTRY AND MOST SNOW FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR . GOOD GRIEF I HOPE IT IS OVER
Apr 21, 2008 | 5:44 AM PST
Ya right... At 6:30 this morning the temperture was -1 and the wind chill -12.
I am almost certain I won't be getting many apples or pears this fall! We here in MT have a saying... if you don't like the weather wait 5 minutes it will change. I would really like to see that happen now!
Apr 20, 2008 | 7:05 AM PST
I WENT OUT SIDE AT 6 THIS MORNING WITH A TAPE MEASURE. IT READ 14 INCHES ON THE PICNIC TABLE AND WAS STILL SNOWING. IT IS TO CONTINUE TILL MONDAY...GUESS I AM STUCK IN THE HOUSE DOING MY WIFELY DUTIES AGAIN! LOL HAPPY PLANTING KERRYH
Apr 19, 2008 | 4:05 PM PST
The only good thing about this day is being able to catch up on everyones blogs. This site is awesome.
The weather guy said we are in for the worst storm we have had this year. I was hoping he was just talking fertilizer.
I looked out my window and there was a robin all covered with snow. Poor little feller. The one good thing is we really need the moisture, I would have rather had a gentle rain. As long as the snows cover the branches I don't usually have any damage.
Have a good day and happy planting Kerry
Apr 15, 2008 | 12:16 PM PST
Tag: compost heap
It has been too nice outside to be at my pc. It was 70 in my back yard yesterday ,today there are snow flakes flying around.
I was not going to add any beds or plants around Jim's Garage. I was going to downsize... ya right. I could not stand all that bare ground and open spaces LOL. My neighbor had a pile of rocks, laying by his back gate, So I made two beds, their each about 3ft around. The soil is awful, I dig down about 12 inches and I come to this coal looking really nasty stuff. So I dug down about 2ft. I dumped that nasty stuff in the alley. I put a weeks worth of kitchen scaps in the hole added my compost and then added a sack of cow poo. When the end of May comes around, those two beds will be ready to plant. The worms will have mixed my scrapes and compost ,and all I will have to do is take the pichfork and fold it together. I have had to do that with most of my yard.
Soon after we moved here, 30 years ago. I decided to plant a vegetable garden between my neighbors and my house. This was before I found out about the wonders of compost. The beans and peas did okay, but my radish just keep getting taller, and nothing underneth. I asked my neighbor, "what the samhill is wrong with this radishes, I never seen 3 ft radishes before"? he laughed and said , In th early 1900's his house used to have a still on the 3rd floor and they thur out all the spent corn and such out the window. The soil was just nasty,we started useing the area to park our camper and boat.
About 5 years ago I started a big compost area there, I kepted moving it around and now the soil looks good, I am still going to make a raised bed, I want to plant a few veggies, It will be fun to see how they turn out.
Happy Planting Kerryh
Apr 6, 2008 | 4:55 PM PST
every gardener's favorite month...here in Montana it is my least favorite.
The paper said we have record snow in the mountains, thats cool , maybe we won't be burning up in June. The fires were terrible last summer. We didn't go camping once because of the fire danger.
In April the nights are freezing and the days could be any temperture. The home and garden show was yesterday and it was snowing at times so hard you could not see the cars in the parking lot. I did not buy any plants! Today it's 50 in my back yard!!! I don't dare even start to clean out the beds and disturb the mulch, even though I can see green and the top branches of my apple tree has started to open up.
Tomorrow I am going to the nursery and check out the rasberry plants,and I want to finish my barberry hedge. I did get the fertilizer on the grass, I am sure I looked a little crazy walking around in a circle speading fertilizer in a snow storm. But that really is a good time to do it. It really melts in fast.
My squirrel is loving his gourmet food LOL. Happy Planting... kerryh
Apr 4, 2008 | 7:50 AM PST
so I am going to spend time catching up with everyones blogs.
The weather can't seem to make up it's mind... spring or winter. It 25 at night and 50 in the afternoon.That is really hard my plants, and me also.I love my dog until spring and I see all those yellow spots in my grass. It really is a mess. I did'nt turn on the sprinkler this winter like I have in the past. And we didn't get much snow either. Some one said lime ??? .has anyone used that remedy.?
I went to the local ranch store yesterday and got some gourmet sqirrel food LOL. I have a squirrel that likes my back yard and he doesn't seem to get intimadated by those damn sparrows, so I thought I would invite him to stay by feeding him this pricy food LOL. Corn, sunflower seeds and peanuts. Hope the sparrow don't like it...barey got the food in a dish and set on the picnic table and he was down the Mountain Ash and waving his tail. I'm sure I am going to be sorry for using my picnic table for a squirrel feeder...I have a squirrel house in th front yard, Got babies last year . They were so cute. We had a black one in the neighborhood untill someone smucked him on the street.
Someone in the neighborhood really likes squirrels because I dig walnuts ,pecan and hazelnuts in my flower bed.and those trees don't grow around here.Do those litttle guys really remember where they plant all those nuts. Oh Bill that pepper idea really did work. No more holes in the front bed.
Well I must do my wifely duties, Dishes vacumming etc. Happy Planting Kerryh
