I have been doing some things the last couple of days, but today I started out by transplanting fifty or so daffodils and tulips that I had in a couple planters. I put them around an old apple stump that is just about ready to fall over.
After I finished that I decided that I would give my roses their spring pruning, so I got out my good pruners and gave them a haircut. I probably will be doing a little more thinning later this spring, but I want to wait until they start to bush out a little before I do anything too drastic.
After dumping the rose clippings into the yard debris barrel, I decided that I would transplant some of my raspberries that were growing in places where I would rather they not. I put them in the rows where the rest of the raspberries where but were a little thin.
I had just about gone in the house when I thought to myself that the weather was so nice and the grass was dry...so I thought I would see if I could give the grass in the front yard a haircut as well.
I was a little surprised at just how much I was cutting so when I finished the front lawn I did the back lawn as well. It is just about this time of year where the grass can really start getting ahead of me; between the grass being too wet or my not having time to do it.
Just to make sure that the grass grows really well, after I finished mowing I decided that I would put down the rest of the Scott's winter fertilizer from last fall. I thought that I would only have enough to do the front lawn, but I had just enough to do the back lawn as well.
My poor fertilizer spreader is broken, it actually broke last fall, but I thought that I would wait until spring to get another one. I still need to do that as it was really hard on my wrists trying to hold down the stub of a lever that allows the fertilizer to drop at the correct rate.
Well, it is late afternoon, but I though that before I got too tired I would jot down a few notes. So that is all that I can remember from today.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Springtime in February
For the past three days the temperature has been in the high fifties to low sixties, so it has been really a tease as to what I have been missing for the last several months. Tomorrow the "normal" weather is suppose to return, so that means rain.
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I spent a couple hours out in my garden too. Mostly trying to uncover it from all the twiggy fall leftovers (sunflower stalks and weed stems). I filled up the compost bin, so I guess I'll have to wait until the next sunny day to add to it again. I also tried to pull up some of the crabgrass and those spring loaded weeds you mentioned you were pulling. Too bad the rain will be back, I was just getting in the swing of things...and there are lots more weeds that need pulling!
It was really such a nice day out today that I had to go out and work in the sunshine.
I am not sure where those spring loaded weeds came from, I have only started noticing them the last five years or so. They sure are a pest, I think that I have them all pulled...for now at least I am sure that more will be popping up before long.
I am glad to see that you were able to get some garden work done. If you are able to get a good start on it this year it should be easier to take care of than it was last year.
If you can get the crab grass and other weeds taken care of now while the soil is wet and easy to pull them out, it will make it much easier to keep them out of the garden this summer. Once the weeds get a head start it is so much harder to get the garden back under control.
If you can you should just pull the weeds and put them in a pile or throw them out into the field where you do not mow. If the sun stays out very long it will kill the weeds at the roots.
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