dirtdobber's Blog

Well, it looks like the veggies are ok. Now I just need to thin them out.  I have so enjoyed fooling around with this vegetable garden.  I have really been missing out on a lot all these years that I had no room.  My next job is to thin out the little plants.  I have so much to learn. I have already started a list of things that I would do differently next year...but I guess that is what it is all about.

Yesterday, after I sprinkled down the garden like Bill told me to do, I had a bit of a work day.  I can't imagine how some of this stuff has jumped to the forefront over the winter, but  honeysuckle is everywhere in our beds.  There is another heart shaped vine with thorns that is also having a good time. I pulled and clipped and hauled off tons of this stuff.  I put some mulch on my little herb garden.  At the end of the day I cut grass. I love to do that...maybe because I can ride?  Anyway it got dark on me, so I need to finish that up today.

I did take a break though to take a picture of the baby birds in their nest. I couldn't wait to share it with you all. When I got out here the mama was sitting on the nest. She flew off and there they were! Just as I had my camera set, they flew out too! I had no idea they were big enough for that. I managed to get a shot of one baby on the ground, but it's not very good.

Today I have a few more fun things planned. I'm headed out to the garden center. Just to browse and maybe pick up a few things. I planted a clematis a few days ago and I need some sort of trellis. A friend gave me some volunteer coreopsis plants that I want to get in the ground today. I've added several things to my perennial bed and it has been fun checking them out everyday. The foxglove is particularly happy. It is beautiful. My morning glories are coming up, but they need to be thinned out today.

What I am the most excited about is what my husband brought me. Remember I am making the memory bed of my mother and mother in law's plants. Well, when I was growing up, there was the biggest oak tree on the property you have ever seen. A bad storm brought down some of the large limbs. Some as big as a tree themselves. They have been cut up and hauled off months ago. I made the remark one day to my husband that I would love to have had one of those "chunks of tree" to put in my garden. Do you know that sweet man went over to my mom's place and found one that didn't  get hauled off. He came home from work with that, a stepping stone from my mom's yard and a little rabbit and frog that she had practically buried in some daylilies. I was so excited. I still don't know how he lifted that log!  I guess after 35 yrs of marriage a man gets to know you pretty well. I was absolutely thrilled! The bed is coming along. I have a lot more work to do, but it is so pleasurable for me. I love working on this project.

I have rambled enough. I need to get on with my day and so do ya'll. Have a good one. And, get in that dirt!  Trish