Twiggybet1's Blog

Today was another beautiful day, sunny and warm, close to 70.  I got carrots, radishes, and beets planted.  I had to move them to a different area of the garden from where I planted them last year.  I planted them at the opposite end of the garden.  Last year, I noticed we had some root maggots, so I'm hoping to avoid that this year by using a different area for the root vegetables. 

The weather man said we were supposed to get thunderstorms this morning, but it didn't happen.  I'm glad, really, because then it would have been messy trying to plant things this afternoon.  The garden has just recently been dry enough to work out there.  Once the ice and snow melted, it was like quick sand soggy, except our soil is more clay like.  I don't ever remember it being quite that mucky in previous years, I wonder if it has anything to do with hubby deciding to till in the fall instead of waiting for spring?

There are some flowers blooming in the rain garden, and some other plants are coming up nicely.  I need to find the diagram I made when I planted it last fall, so I can remember what is there.  I am still looking for a bird-bath, or fountain, preferably a solar-powered one, to put as a focal point in the rain garden.  My problem is I am choosy.  I want yard ornaments that are American made, or at least not made in China.  I also need to edge the pebble splash path.  My darling dog tends to scatter some pebbles when he runs over them. 

Geeze, we have so many yard projects we need to do this year!  I want to put trellises up along a portion of the fence to grow my squash and other viney things, and another area of the fence needs to be replaced.  The hardest part of getting to any of these projects is hubby and I agreeing on how we should go about them.!!!!! 

Of all my winter experiments, the only one I think is very successful is my avacado tree.  That's still doing good.  My mystery bulbs seem to be a troublesome weedy thing that is also popping up all over the yard, here and there in the grass, flower beds and also in the asparagus bed!  My gigantic sweet potato vine finally gave up the ghost - I think I killed it with kindness.  None of my frantic efforts to save it helped.  My two pots of calla lillies are obviously something else, too, because they are like 2 1/2 feet tall fronds (no flowers) and I don't recall calla lillies ever getting that big.  But at least they are ALIVE! 

I think tomorrow would be a good day to prepare the areas I plan to plant with sweet potatos and white potatos.  I need to mound up a row and cover it with black plastic mulch to warm the soil. That is, provided we don't get those thunderstorms.