lmballard's Profile

Hi my name is Linda and I live in upstate NY in the Catskill Mountains. My husband and I have about 3 acres that we can work with. We have vegetable gardens, flower gardens and water gardens. I also enjoy working with container gardens. We have been working this property since we moved here in 1981.

Rainny Day
We moved out of the deep freeze and it has been quite nice here. Mostly in the 60 and 70s with a few days in the 50s. Nice weather for weeding and planting which is what I have been doing. Now it is time to wait and see how things grow. So far I ha...

Weather
We are back in the deep freeze. The temp. is supposed to go down into the 20s tonight. It only got to around 36 today and that was in the morning. Very frustrating as I have several plants I would like to get into the ground. Some of them are a Flori...

Beautiful Day
We had a great day for working in the garden. It was in the low 70s so not too hot or cold and the sun was shining which was nice. I was able to get a lot of weeding done and clean up one of the last beds that I had left to do. I also was able to p...

Strange Weather
This year has been such an usually warm one. One day it is in the 80s and next thing you know we are back in the 30s. At this point we don't really dare start planting much except for cold weather things like peas, beets, carrots and potatoes. But th...

Early Spring?
Today was just great. It was so warm and sunny which was really nice. We got quite a lot of yard work done and also uncovered our water garden. Last year it was mid-april before we uncovered it. I just hope that we don't get any hard freezes as thing...