kerryh's Blog

I look at everyone pictures and I  so want to get out in to my yard.I  am not crazy about the winds we get here but if it would melt the ice in my back yard and I could get it cleaned up I would'nt care if it was blew 60 miles ahour. And believe  me around hear thats mild.

 I cleaned  out some of the cattails in the pond,they really took offl last summer. I did not have the heart to throw them, so I put them in a bucket of water!!!. Now what ? LOL. I never clean out the flower beds till sping , a fellow that ran our parks, told me once never to cut our roses back till spring... if we have a open winter, we might not have to cut them down so far.That happens alot now. I was watering in January. What kills plants in this area, is the constant thawing and freezing we get and the winds drying out the soil.. The plants start to bud in Feburary and then we get a cold snap and they freeze so then we dont get fruit. So  I water to keep the ground frozen. It works ...sometimes.

I noticed my lilacs are in bud, I did'nt get much last year, we had to trim them back for the garage, I was really hoping to get blooms this spring. And the pear tree is also.

We gardeners are  a hopefull clan. Aren't we?