58 this morning, rain threatening.
We've only just begun. So much to do in the spring. Larry has the electric fence up and working on one garden and I got out the string trimmer yesterday, after putting down 10 more bags of mulch, and did around the walks, etc until my battery died. Then raked debris.
It's starting to green up, although today has been cooling down as the day has gone on, and might slow things down.
The daffodils are beginning to look so pretty.
Me, no so much. The wind has been playing havoc with my hair. Today was another 10 bags of mulch, so we're up to 40 in all, probably about half of what we'll need to finish.
Notice the different colored mulch in the center? We got the wrong kind the other day, a different brand, and the color is so different. We shall see which holds up better. The lighter mulch was more expensive, but the guy loading didn't realize it was the wrong stuff an neither did we until we started spreading it. At least we only paid for the cheaper stuff!
It's messy in places--I'm afraid we weren't as neat as we could be but oh well. It will all look fine in the end--not like master landscapers did it, but more like two 70 year-olds with achy joints did it.
These guys are the last remnants of an old 100-foot long flower bed I used to have here. Bless them, they valiantly struggle on, blooming every year with minimal to no care, even after 40 years.
This area is still to do. About 15 bags here, I think. We used to get truckloads of mulch but there is nowhere close by to get it now, and the bags are just easier for us to handle.
My only garden sign: "Don't Piss Off The Fairies". Wise words.
It's a start anyway, on all that needs to be done. In the corner of the last photo you can see some flowering plants I picked up today, along with some spinach, cabbage and celery plants. Those will all go in the ground Monday, I hope, if the weather is good. I work at the antique mall tomorrow, so these will wait. I think they need a little more hardening off anyway.
I do love this time of year, even with its wild fluctuations in temperature. Everything is so hopeful, everything seems possible in the gardens. With the world news so glum and dire, it is good to have this simple pleasure to look forward too---even if it means a lot of work now and later.
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Spring is at full-tilt here right now too. Some days I wish I had a bigger garden, then other days I'm quite content with a few pots and hanging baskets. At the time I bought my house I had Mum's garden to look after and didn't need any more gardening. Les and I went to buy potting compost and some plants on Friday and coincidentally managed to pick up more expensive compost than we had paid for.
ReplyDeleteYou are at least a month ahead of my plants going from their winter place in the living room windows to out on the porch and balcony. Glad you are the ones doing the mulching, rather than myself. I certainly understand that look, as you bent over and came back up so many times.
ReplyDeleteNice work you are doing, it will look great when things start to grow and bloom. I hate bending over millions of times, it a pain in my back.
ReplyDeleteIt's so lovely to see the life and colors in your gardens! Mud Season has truly begun here, and I only hope it doesn't last until June like it did in 2021. Keeping a happy thought! Ordering one or two packets of seeds has been one of my coping-with-impending-despair responses in recent months. Well, I've just inventoried all my seeds, new and old, and I may need to buy more land.
ReplyDeleteSo lovely! Daffodils are such happy flowers! Although I am most definitely a winter soul, I love the scents and sounds of spring :) I can hear the peepers some nights when I fall asleep.
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