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| Robins are back April 29/17 |
A new growing season is crouching just around the corner and I am so looking forward to my garden coming alive again!
March 21 Laundry room planting
Tomato seeds
2 pots Early Girls (3 seeds in each pot)
2 pots Lemon Boys
2 pots Tumblers
2 pots Beef Steaks
1 pot Purple Russian
1 pot New Zealand tomatoes
1 pot dill seeds
Herbs: parsely, Rosemary, cilantro and oregano
To do- basil and sage
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| Morning Glories, sage, rosemary |
March 26
First to Sprout
1 Lemon Boy and 1 Beef Steak tomato
March 27 Planting - Dahlias
4 Pots of Firebirds
1 pot of Thompson Red
2 pots of new Tahitian Sunrise
(I accidentally composted my "Mystery Day" tubers last fall, thinking they were Firebirds which I had too many of. :(
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| Crocuses on Picnic Hills April 28/17 |
April 2 Plated Squash seeds 2 pots Spaghetti squash
2 pots zucchinis
1 kaboda squash
1 red pepper seeds
Flower Seeds Planted
1 pot zinnia seeds
1pot calendulas
1 pot Morning Glories
1 pot Lavatara
2 pots sweet peas
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| Red Thompson Dahlia |
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| Firebird Dahlia, orange and yellow |
April 10
All seedlings have sprouted except Early Girls seeds are duds. I had replanted them a week or so ago and they have sprouted now,
Dahlias are all up and growing well. Most will go into the greenhouse . It's still cool in there at night in spite of the heater which helps to slow the growth and results in sturdier stems.
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| Hollyhocks sprouting April 5/17 |
The tulips at the side of our house started peeking out about April 1. I just hope that they will produce some flowers this year as they are pretty crowded and I didn't get a chance to did them up and thin them out last year. There's no point it trying to do it now, as the bulbs will have set this year's blooms last fall. ( I think….) So we'll just go for broke!
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| My greenhouse is full |
Photos taken April 5 of tulips at the side of the house. :D
My hollyhocks in that same bed are also showing some greenery in their centres. I cleaned out that bed again and dug up some grass roots ( what else!?)
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| Zucchini, cosmos seedlings, calendula seedlings and Tahiti Sunrise dahlia |
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| Tomato seedlings are doing well, except I had to replant the Early Girls (Ironic that they are going to be 2 weeks late! :) |
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| Parsely, Jade and spaghetti squashes |
Next I started cleaning up my stackstone bed.,The snow had disappeared from those two beds and from my rock garden in late march. The rest of my flower beds in the front yard were covered in 6 inches of snow up until last week.
The beds are still pretty wet and there's no sign of life as of April 10 and 11 (2017).
Yesterday I cleaned up most of my stackstone bed, filling my big white laundry basket full of roots and other compost. The chives plant which I cut back last fall is showing a few inches of chives already but was also hiding a huge mass of quack grease. Each of those seemingly innocuous stems lead to long strings of roots all over the north east side/ shad side of that bed. The rest of the bed between the rose bushes also was harbouring a lot of quack grass. That's always been my main nemesis in my flower beds here!
Rock Garden Bed
I clipped last year's dead day lily leaves from the lower section, then tidied up the Blue sages. Quack grass still needs to come out.
I also raked up the dead day lily leaves by the pond and the grass around the bench.
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| Snow covering my struggling tulips April 14/17 |
Rain/ snow mix expected for Easter weekend (April 13, 14, 15) and yes, it arrived without fail.
All 4 Grandkids will be here for 4 days during Easter vacation week. Was that hectic and noisy or what! :)
Old Man winter seemed to have a strangle hold on us and didn't want to give in to Spring.
More snow April 23-
Luckily it didn't last very long.
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| First swallow scout in back yard April 28th. The flock is not far behind. |
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