Well we finally had a nice weekend, weather wise and Earthy Birthy Mama FINALLY planted her garden and all of those flowers that have been sitting on her porch for the past few weeks. The weather here has been crazy, winter did not want to release her grip on the mid-west, so all of my gardening attempts had not happened. But, alas today Todd and Willie came and tilled up my vegetable garden and I planted all my flowers in my containers.
I love getting dirty, I have a greenish thumb and I get very excited this time of year when all the local stores have all their plants out for sale. I always plant the staples like geraniums, petunias, Dusty Miller, and snap dragons. I love Begonias, but the weather here is sometimes too hot for Begonias. In the vegetable garden I still need to pick up some sweet potato starts and some egg-plant, but my tomatoes are in, as are the peppers, lettuce, edible sweet peas, pumpkins, squash, and the zucchini. I also planted some container herbs for my porch as the landscaping here does not yet permit me to plant in the actual ground.
I did however find a use for all those flipping rocks, Mr. Anti- Hippie put up a fence around the garden and we put almost all the rocks around the bottom to keep out the rabbits. He also helped me put down a layer of newspaper covered with straw and grass clippings to keep the weeds down. I need to buy one of those big floppy hats like the old gals wear so that the sun stays off my face and neck.
All in all it was a pretty great weekend, I cleaned off my front porch and got all that planting completed. The homework on the other hand kind of got put to the side, hopefully I can tackle that tomorrow.
4 comments:
Ok, girl, you've been tagged AGAIN and this time you better comply! It'll be fun. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is in my latest post.
Love it. Dan and I spend a lot of time outside gardening and I like to mix containers with plots.
By the way, do you know the difference between a begonia and a double begonia? It's a story my mother told me when I was 10 and I have never gotten it out of my mind since.
Zirelda, No what is the difference between a begonia and a double begonia?
EBM
It's a poem of puns my mother taught me when I was little. I wrote it on my blog because your post reminded me of it. :) You can go there to read it if you like.
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