Friday, March 19, 2010
Gardening Has Officially Begun!
The weather finally warmed up enough and the sun came out long enough yesterday to get outside and do some much needed maintenance. Since I am still recovering from surgery I did not get much done before I had to stop, but I did manage to weed a bit around my sidewalk path and pull up some not so pretty anymore plastic path lights that we are replacing with (hopefully) better quality stainless steel ones. My first 3 daffodils bloomed and I would post pics, but my darling 5 year old daughter picked them all. So I guess we can settle fora pic from last year for now. Those are the path lights I removed, there were 12 total.
My wonderful husband weeded my entire flower bed, raked the yard, and started weeding the garden spot which looked really good except for the huge fire ant mound at one end. I will try the boiling water method to get rid of them and if that doesn't work dirty mop water had killed them before and if they are still kicking after that I guess I will have to resort to poison/pesticide which I really don't want to do since I want to try and stay as organic as possible, but fire ants are nasty little critters and very hard to get rid of.
I am starting my seeds this afternoon and will post some more pics then. I have blueberries starting to bud, strawberry plants to try and get out, and seeds to start. It is supposed to rain this weekend. I was looking forward to a nice sunny weekend like yesterday and today, I certainly hope I can get at least one day of stuff done this weekend so my hubby can get the garden spot ready.
Labels:
compost,
fire ants,
garden,
organic,
path lights,
seed starting,
weather,
weeding
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