Good Morning, All!
It's a beautiful day here - already warmed up to almost 60*F, and is supposed to get almost to 80*F before the rain starts in around suppertime. Once the grandsons are both up and fed, I'm planning to head out to the gardens and do some more tilling. I won't get much - if anything - planted though I'd love to get my rows of zinnias that I plant at the front and back of the gardens in as I enjoy them so much. Granny always said not to plant the warm weather crops until after the full moon in May, but that won't be until the 26th, so I will likely risk planting earlier. The poke is finally coming up in my flower bed in between the sidewalk and driveway - later than usual. I pointed it out to youngest grandson and reminded him that if you are going to cook it and eat it, that you have to change the water three times. He asked if that was the plant that we made ink from the berries - I was so pleased that he remembered!
I told Hubby that I plan to open up the back garden this year and plant it almost completely in sweet corn - he didn't even argue; kinda gave me a bit of a jolt as he usually tells me I'm taking on too much work; maybe he's finally getting worried about what's coming down the pike, unrest wise. I am going to save room for my sunflowers though; and youngest grandson is asking if we can plant watermelons, so I guess I'll leave a little bit of room for those as well. I'm also going to till an area by the gooseberries for my raspberries that are still stuck in pots on the front porch.
I've got a bunch of pruning I need to do - my elderberries and gooseberries both have a lot of dead wood in them - the elderberries have almost no older trunks putting out leaves, but do have a ton of new growth coming up. I want to get the old branches out as there is some Virginia creeper starting to twine on a couple of the dead trunks. I doubt that I get much, if any, of it done today as the younger grandson already has lots of plans for things he wants to do today; and it will be soon enough that he doesn't want to spend his time hanging out with his old Granny. Hubby let him drive the ancient Mule around the yard yesterday, so I guess I could do a bit of pruning, and let him use the mule to haul the prunings to the burn pile.
I need to buy a few more wren houses - I've got wrens arguing over the one in the side porch grapevines and the one on the clothesline post as well. If I'm not careful, they'll have nests in a couple of my birdfeeders - I need to write on my to-do list to check them today! I'm pretty sure I bought some cedar boards to use to make bird houses, but I'm darned if I can find them, so someone probably decided to use them for something else...
Well, the boys and dog have been fed and watered, so I guess it's time for me to start doing something useful! You folks all take care; stay safe out there!
It's a beautiful day here - already warmed up to almost 60*F, and is supposed to get almost to 80*F before the rain starts in around suppertime. Once the grandsons are both up and fed, I'm planning to head out to the gardens and do some more tilling. I won't get much - if anything - planted though I'd love to get my rows of zinnias that I plant at the front and back of the gardens in as I enjoy them so much. Granny always said not to plant the warm weather crops until after the full moon in May, but that won't be until the 26th, so I will likely risk planting earlier. The poke is finally coming up in my flower bed in between the sidewalk and driveway - later than usual. I pointed it out to youngest grandson and reminded him that if you are going to cook it and eat it, that you have to change the water three times. He asked if that was the plant that we made ink from the berries - I was so pleased that he remembered!
I told Hubby that I plan to open up the back garden this year and plant it almost completely in sweet corn - he didn't even argue; kinda gave me a bit of a jolt as he usually tells me I'm taking on too much work; maybe he's finally getting worried about what's coming down the pike, unrest wise. I am going to save room for my sunflowers though; and youngest grandson is asking if we can plant watermelons, so I guess I'll leave a little bit of room for those as well. I'm also going to till an area by the gooseberries for my raspberries that are still stuck in pots on the front porch.
I've got a bunch of pruning I need to do - my elderberries and gooseberries both have a lot of dead wood in them - the elderberries have almost no older trunks putting out leaves, but do have a ton of new growth coming up. I want to get the old branches out as there is some Virginia creeper starting to twine on a couple of the dead trunks. I doubt that I get much, if any, of it done today as the younger grandson already has lots of plans for things he wants to do today; and it will be soon enough that he doesn't want to spend his time hanging out with his old Granny. Hubby let him drive the ancient Mule around the yard yesterday, so I guess I could do a bit of pruning, and let him use the mule to haul the prunings to the burn pile.
I need to buy a few more wren houses - I've got wrens arguing over the one in the side porch grapevines and the one on the clothesline post as well. If I'm not careful, they'll have nests in a couple of my birdfeeders - I need to write on my to-do list to check them today! I'm pretty sure I bought some cedar boards to use to make bird houses, but I'm darned if I can find them, so someone probably decided to use them for something else...
Well, the boys and dog have been fed and watered, so I guess it's time for me to start doing something useful! You folks all take care; stay safe out there!