Gardening, anyone?

Glad I haven't planted anything yet. Temps are supposed to get near frost threat levels tonight.

I have been enjoying the pictures and updates. Keep them coming! I am glad you posted more straw bale picture, Wench, because I was going to ask about them. i would love to see the plants' progression. Jazzy, those succulents are gorgeous. I bought a few this year and made a miniature gnome (as opposed to fairy )garden with them, It makes me smile when I walk out the door and see them.

My garden markers are strips of venitian(sp) blinds that I cut up. They look horrible but give me plenty of room to p

ut on a name and even the date planted.

I planted 18 out of my 29 pepper plants last night after coming home from work and cooking dinner. I am exhausted. Ugh. Tonight I will get the rest of them in and then maybe this weekend plant a few spaghetti squash seeds as well as a couple hills of watermelon and cantaloupe. I have a blueberry and a kiwi plant that need to go in the ground. I think I will plant them in my grape area where I only have 2 plants that have survived. Then I have a few flowers that need to go in my bed but I think I want DH to cut down the scraggly back to its root stock rose bush down first.

No word yet on when my new shed will be in. :-(

Baby pluots

Pink lady Apple

Peach-fruit moths already claiming territory

Clematis...darn thing is blooming on the back side of the fence so no one can enjoy it from the street :-(

Jazzy ..love your succulent arrangement..they are my favourite plants of all !!

Hiedi ..your fruit trees are looking great !! Your clematis looks very pretty ..my neighbour has two beautiful bougainvilleas that flower constantly nearly all year .They both hang over my fence and give me daily joy , but they have to come into my yard to admire them ☺

Thank you everyone for the compliments on the succulent planter. Time for bed but keep the awesome pictures coming!

I have noticed that I can't take the heat very well since having treatment. It's gotten so bad that when it's really warm, I try to get all my housework done early so I can hide in the house

It usually does unless it gets really humid too

Ananda, we've gotten another inch or 2 over the past 24 hours. My yard looks wonderful! The grass is finally overtaking the moss. The moss is nice as I don't have to mow it but I like the look of grass better :-)

I was just thinking that I was glad DH cut that big tree down causing so much shade over my garden but now I'm going to miss its shade while I'm out in the garden. Shade with less vigorous plant/veggie growth or big producing plants? I'll take the later

Still not able to get in garden, too weak. Just finished light radz and was taken off Ibrance since WBC dropped to 1.8. So cannot go out in the cold now.

In NW Indiana, unseasonably challenging for gardeners. But this would be good weather to pull weeds since cool cold even and rainy. We used the coconut plant hangers from last season and placed birdseed in them and lined them along the deck rail so I can see from office window. Right now there is one piney (boo) and one chippy, two nuthatch, two tufted titmouse, a male and female rose-breasted grosbeak and a few bluejays. Robins on the ground. Chives, thyme and he shi ho (or something like that lol) perennial onions are growing and some hollyhocks all from last year. My garden is waiting for me.

Was looking at a 4-wheeler scooter today.

So cold and rainy that very few seeds would sprout in this. Spinach, peas. By March 1st, I used to have the garden half planted and completely planned for the season. Though plans of mice and men, seldom did they get followed. 12 tomatoes only would turn to 20 that had to come home with me and have to fit.

I have a basket on my cupboard that is full of last year seeds and I think today I will get it out. And last year my garden jumper got coated in tiny burrs so have to scrape them off.

Here's a pic of last summer's loaded patty pan squash. And I love all the posts and pics, even if I don't share often.

Never in a million years did I ever think I would have ever have to mow our lawn. Hubby had always taken care of it ever since we moved into our house. That all changed last year when he had a broken wrist. He taught me how to start the mower and how to use it. The only thing that he did was put the gas in it. Thankfully our lawn isn't massive and I could get it done in 30 minutes.

We have a push mower and it was really easy to run. Never thought it would have been a great workout, but it was

Bluebird - love the patty pan squash pic. How do you cook? I'm only familiar with the crooked neck. I picked up a couple squash plants the other day that are small round like baseballs. I don't remember the name. But I like to experiment, so thought I'd try.

Jazzygirl - that's a beautiful picture, thanks for sharing. We have a game camera we take pics of deer we feed on a property we have. Hubby no longer hunts (thank goodness) so he jokes about the only shooting he does is with a camera.

WenchLori - understand about the ticks. Ours are rather seasonal. We live amongst the oaks and feed the wildlife. So its my belief we have them mostly because of all the squirrels. Most of the time we catch them before they take a bite.

WenchLori, I am with you on ticks.  I've had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever which is fairly common in the Ozarks.  No fun.

Bluebird, what a beautiful squash picture. I love baked patty pan squash. Picture perfect!

Jazzy, such a wonderful picture so much color and a fawn as a symbol of new life. Just beautiful!

M0mmy, we've been having rain all this past week with more coming today and tomorrow. My rain gauge says we've gotten over 5" so far. The ground is totally saturated and our pond hasn't been this high ever. I'm thankful that there is an outlet drain at the far end for the water to run out into a creek or we wouldn't be able to cross our small bridge to get out. Our Bald Cyprus is in heaven! Sunday is supposed to be sunny but still chilly, then a return to Spring later next week. I wonder how much growth my veggie plants have done since I covered them all up a few days ago? Maybe the rain will let up so I can go take a peek today?

Ananda, I'm glad you were able to catch the Ricky Mountains Spotted Fever early as it's pretty nasty stuff! So many people die from it every year. :-(

Gardennerd, the ricks here this year are very tiny. They look like tiny freckles. I had my hubby go over my whole body with a magnifying glass to make sure there wasn't any others. I'll have to start rinsing off after every trip to my garden as that's where I see them the most. I'll have to check into some bug spray that helps with ticks and spray the ground around my bales. There has to be something out there. The mosquito and tick repellent I'm using obviously isn't working.

I have the dish guy coming this morning. Our DVR failed and we've lost all of our recordings from last year. I asked if there was something they could do for our inconvenience? They said sure, we'll give you HBO and Cinimax for $10 a month for 6 months. I said no thanks, I'm not paying you for my inconvenience! Some people!!

WenchLori - Here is some ideas on tick prevention: Tick prevention

Had a chuckle about your dish comment. They probably just offered you the special that is currently going around. But love your reply back to them. We are trying out the Roku in a second home (one day our retirement home, under repair) I must admit I like it ALOT. It is a streaming media box. You buy the box and any additional monthly fees are your choice. We already subscribed to Netflix but it is an easier to use then our set up at home. But there are 1000's of movies and shows to watch. Negatives are that we can't get local channels without antennae and hubby can't get Fox news the way he likes. But overall, I LOVE the price. It is cheaper than one month of our dish service.