kerryh's Blog

EVERYTHING IS PLANTED
May 31, 2008 | 6:23 AM PST

so it's set back and watch things grow time. This is my favorite time, It still amases me after all these years a little seed can  become a hugh tree. The white ash tree I planted from seed is over ten feet tall now.

I am trying some thing new this spring. I planted alfalfa in my new rasberry bed.

 I planted the type of rasberry you mow down in the fall, so I figured I could mow both and put them in the compost pile.Alfala is a wonderful fertilizer and cover crop.

I have a  awesome cousin who  is completly organic,recyles everything. Paul is truly a Granola. He lives on a lava rock near Pahoo Hawaii.  Raises organic goats.   Anyway I was talking to him one day about getting a few bunnys , my compost pile was not heating up. He said  "Why go to all the trouble of bunnys when I could just go buy the feed, and put it in the compost pile or better yet, just toss the pellete in my beds. I have been doing this for 3 years now. I did not  have to use a any jump starter such as Miracle Grow this spring.  My plants are a couple of inches taller than my neighbors this spring. And the soil in my beds  is wonderful.

I was checking out another garden site and came across a site where the members were talking about useing rabbit feed as a fertilzer,  It really does work. And whats really cool about it. A fifty pound sack cost me ten dollars and lasted me 2 seasons so far. I am going to buy a bunch this fall and toss it on my lawn. It sure won't hurt and maybe it will jumpstart the grass be fore the weeds.

I apply it pretty thick in the fall and lightly in the spring. It breaks down fast and the worms love it. It smells good too. Anytime I  can use somthing other than a chemical ...Awesome. Now if I could find an ant killer, that I could put on the lawn and in the  beds that  would 'nt kill everything else.  Any ideas?

 I would think maybe useing rabbit feed  like I do would not be a good idea if you lived in the country and had wild critters around. You might wake up and find a herd of deer lounging  under your bedroom window.LOL

Happy Planting Kerryh

IT IS RAINING
May 27, 2008 | 12:39 PM PST

today, so I will catch up on my garden site. It has been raining for days and the only thing that is growing is the weeds. I planted grass seed this spring and I swear there must have been millions of dandylion seeds it the package. OMG I have dandie's blooming everywhere. If I spray for them I will kill my clover. What a mess. I did not have very good grass to begin with now it's really ugly.

Every ten years I rip out the front yard and redo it.  This time I brought the beds out away from the 100 year old foundation. Replaced the  flowers in the  beds with gravel and big rocks and used sand stone to bring out the front of the beds and to double for a  sandstone sidewalk.I started last fall and  finished planting last week. There are so many ground covers to choose from. I   think I am going to  have to redo the lawn with sod, the soil is so old and the weeds sprout before the grass does. "I hate grass"

   My neighbor was kind enough to build a beautiful "stone wall!' on our property line that made my new flower bed look awesome,and I still have one side of the  house to paint and stain. One of these days I am going to sit and enjoy my yard... LOL

 

  Over the holiday my daughter and I took the train from Shelby Mt to Spokane WA. What a awesome trip.  What a wonderful way to travel. We sat  in lounge chairs in the observation car through Glacier Park,  what a hoot. Spokane is truly a beautiful city.

   Holly and I have never rode a public transit system before. Once we figured out the  scheduals, we went all over the city on a $2.50 pass for the day. The Spokane  River was at it's highest that has ever been recorded and we took a gondola ride over the falls. Wow...that was awesome. We visited the Manito Park and Riverfont Park. The  pink Horse Chesnut trees were in bloom.  And all the spring flowers were beautiful.

the Japanese Gardens were beautiful.What a wonderful trip ,I would love to see the gardens in July too, will have to do another trip in a few years. Happy Planting Kerryh

HELLO EVERYONE,
May 1, 2008 | 2:36 PM PST

been to nice to be indoors. Been catching up on a few must do projects. The roofers came yesterday and started on the house, They are almost done with the house and will start on the gargage. That hall storm, we got last summer really  did a number on everyones roof. I got two sides on the old garden shed  wire brushed and ready for paint . The can said 50 degrees... I have 3 days off next week I must have a talk with the mother nature and see if she can help out, just this one time.LOL I have ordered vines to go up the  two sides. 

The flower beds are all ready for plants, I think the bleeding hearts I planted a month ago when it was so nice  died.They have not come up as of yet. I do that every year. I go into stores like Walmart and see these boxed plants, bring them home and kill em, because the ground is still to cold to plant anything.Oh well if they were in the store they would have dried up by now. Why do those store get plants so early?Because planting nuts like me buy them!!!!

 When I ordered plants from the catalog, I told them not to send it before the 10th of may or I would not except it.Good grief it was in the teens just a few days ago.

  It amazes me anything is alive this spring. The buds on my plum tree is black and crispy as are the lilics, How sad another spring without that wonderful smell in our gardens. What is really cool is how sturdy daffodil's and tulips are. They were under 16 inches of snow and they never even layed down.