Tuesday, March 22, 2016
gardening outside 2016
Beginning gardening for 2016
butterfly bush, year 2
love lies bleeding - signs of life
Red bud in bloom
strawberries, year 2
strawberries, year 2
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Gardening
8 March 2016
Made a raised bed out of an old box spring left in the bushes (Jackie made it). We planted two rows of Texas Sweet Onion bulbs. Used vegetable plant soil mixed with humus
Sunny Day - 68-72F
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9 March 2016
Jackie watered the onion bulbs, bought soil for the bed
54-76F - sunny
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10 March 2016
weeded three containers and turned the soil. Will weed again and then plant veggies
76F - feels warmer. Sunny
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11 March 2016
78F - sunny
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12 March 2016
There are buds on the redbud bush in front. Planted marigold, cosmos and coleus seeds in long planters.
76-62F with possible showers
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13 March 2016
76F rainy day
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14 March 2016
One tiny sprout in my Love Lies Bleeding Amaranth
58-74F overcast
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15 March 2016
more sprouts with the Love Lies Bleeding and Deacon loves laying on my planted marigold seeds.
82F - warm and sunny
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16 March 2016
more soil into the raised bed and watered the onions. Planted potatoes in the gizmo that will turn into a potato tower.
Bought soil and containers for the trees that arrived yesterday from the Arbor Day foundation:
3 American Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
2 crapemyrtles (Lagerstroemia indica) - Mom would love these
2 Sargent Crabapple (Malus sargentii)
2 Washington Hawthorns (Crataegus phaenopyrum)
3 white flowering dogwoods (Cornus florida)
we also have 2 Black walnuts, a Tupalo gum tree, 2 boxwood hedges and 2 forysthias coming. Our yard will be full!
The saplings we have will soak for 3-6 hours and be planted in containers and transplanted to larger containers and then into the ground over the next year, year and a half.
Kinda tired and we're not done for the day
Made a raised bed out of an old box spring left in the bushes (Jackie made it). We planted two rows of Texas Sweet Onion bulbs. Used vegetable plant soil mixed with humus
Sunny Day - 68-72F
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9 March 2016
Jackie watered the onion bulbs, bought soil for the bed
54-76F - sunny
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10 March 2016
weeded three containers and turned the soil. Will weed again and then plant veggies
76F - feels warmer. Sunny
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11 March 2016
78F - sunny
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12 March 2016
There are buds on the redbud bush in front. Planted marigold, cosmos and coleus seeds in long planters.
76-62F with possible showers
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13 March 2016
76F rainy day
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14 March 2016
One tiny sprout in my Love Lies Bleeding Amaranth
58-74F overcast
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15 March 2016
more sprouts with the Love Lies Bleeding and Deacon loves laying on my planted marigold seeds.
82F - warm and sunny
##############
16 March 2016
more soil into the raised bed and watered the onions. Planted potatoes in the gizmo that will turn into a potato tower.
Bought soil and containers for the trees that arrived yesterday from the Arbor Day foundation:
3 American Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
2 crapemyrtles (Lagerstroemia indica) - Mom would love these
2 Sargent Crabapple (Malus sargentii)
2 Washington Hawthorns (Crataegus phaenopyrum)
3 white flowering dogwoods (Cornus florida)
we also have 2 Black walnuts, a Tupalo gum tree, 2 boxwood hedges and 2 forysthias coming. Our yard will be full!
The saplings we have will soak for 3-6 hours and be planted in containers and transplanted to larger containers and then into the ground over the next year, year and a half.
Kinda tired and we're not done for the day
Friday, March 11, 2016
Gardening and the TO DO List
Got more soil for the raised bed and we've started the Texas sweet onions. I cleaned out three of the containers and turned the soil. Now to plant. I plan on using the two long planters to start seeds for flowers. The veggies will be direct sowed
Then the porch needs to be repainted, the back entry at the screened porch needs painted
we need to clear out the garden areas for plants
eventually work a pathway to where we want to put the bench
make an arbor/pergola out of PVC for the bench
plant trees and shrubs that we have ordered
experiement more with cooking
rearrange the craft room
go through tubs in the garage and basement
repair the driveway
put flooring down in the bedrooms
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Personal To Do List
write, write, write
draw more
beadwork
quilting
piecing for quilting
more patches
get my truck running
new tatt
new weapon
Then the porch needs to be repainted, the back entry at the screened porch needs painted
we need to clear out the garden areas for plants
eventually work a pathway to where we want to put the bench
make an arbor/pergola out of PVC for the bench
plant trees and shrubs that we have ordered
experiement more with cooking
rearrange the craft room
go through tubs in the garage and basement
repair the driveway
put flooring down in the bedrooms
..............................
Personal To Do List
write, write, write
draw more
beadwork
quilting
piecing for quilting
more patches
get my truck running
new tatt
new weapon
Cat Shelves
We put up shelves in the screened in porch for the cats to romp over and jump up to the small loft space and back down. They are loving it. Was a task putting them up but the cats are happy and aren't climbing the screens.
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