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