SheriLL123's Blog

Classes this week were a lot of fun. Tuesdays class was on how to kill a tree.  We learned proper planting techniques and pruning.  Turn out my hubby does a pretty good job already.  However we learned that we do over prune our palm trees.  During class they drug us outside and we got to plant a mahogany tree.  Cool.

Thursday we learned how to make babies!  He-he, my hubby has had lots of amusing comments to make about that class this week.  Seriously, Plant propagation was fascinating.  This is the class I have learned the most in so far.  The teacher for this class was great.  He works at a citrus research station about an hour inland from here.  He brought in bucket-fulls of plants and we got hands on training.  I am anxious for it to be light outside so I can run outside and propagate some of my own plants.

Gerrrrr,  I'm not adjusting well to the time change.  Usually my hubby and I will go for a bike ride or something at 6:30a before he goes to work. Then I will run the younger kids from our block to school and by now I would have watered the veggies and seeds and be sitting down for breakfast.  =(  It is just now getting light out.  Oh well guess we will have to ride at night.  If only I could get him home before dark. 

I bought a new composter about 2 weeks ago that I haven't got around to setting up yet.  My plan today is to get that going. I need to take some pics for my records too and put some in my albums.  Well hubby has to work all weekend so I should have lots of time to putter in the yard.   I want to try some of the things I learned in class yest too.  I have some hibiscus varieties that I would like some more of and I want more sea grapes for another bed I am planning too.  I would like to try 'air layering' some of my fav crotons too. Which means I need to run to Home Depot and get some sphagnum moss and some potting soil etc....  Oh, I'm going to save so much money. =)  We wanted to line the new fence with coco plums.....  Now where am I going to put all this so hubby won't complain?????