The fence is coming along well. Most of the columns are done and almost all the posts are in. Next week they should put up the fence sections. Then we'll actually have a fence and be able to keep the deer out. But weird weather - this morning we woke up to fog, cool weather (we made it to 64) and heavy mist with light rain later in the day. We need the wet weather and I'm sure the plants are thrilled to get the moisture. Tomorrow should be similar weather. Next week we're supposed to get into the 80's. Summer is on its way.
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Okay we have a problem after that wind. My bougainvillea is naked - it has lost every single leaf. It was a new plant and looked nice. But its only naked, not dead so I'm sure it will come back to life. I may need to find a new place for it. Right now it is sitting on the stairs so it is out getting the full force of the wind. I may have to move it someplace where it still gets sun but maybe a bit less wind. The real problem is in the back. All that dirt I moved in the back then seeded with buffalo grass seed, well the wind moved it. Don't know exactly where it got moved to, but I've got some definite bare areas again. Of course, that is exactly why I'm trying to get grass to grow there. The back patio is also full of dirt, weeds, twigs, and leaves from the wind. We'll have to use either a blower to move that dirt out of the patio or we will have to sweep it off, but somehow we will need to clean that back patio off. ...
Oh my goodness. Yesterday was windy. We hit gusts of 51mph here at the house. It appears some areas even had power outages due to the wind. It blew hard enough to tear one of the vents off the greenhouse. Bill was able to retrieve the wayward vent so we'll try to repair it and re-install it. But it meant that plants inside the greenhouse had to be covered last night. And they will have to be covered the next few nights - we're due for night temperatures near freezing, below 40 for the next week or so. And I still have those little seedlings growing and they will not survive those cold nights. Hopefully we won't be getting wind like that for a while again. The center of the country has been in a cold spell with snow and such. Us, we just got the wind. Not even any rain from it. Oh well.
Things I need to remember for next year's winter. Cover the Esperanzas and the Plumbago. They both got a bit too much freeze damage. Luckily they are both coming back. The crowns are alive but the branches got too much freezing temperature. I also had a small problem with the iris' that Leena, my neighbor, gave me. The iris' look like they are growing. But for some reason the deer keep trying to eat and pull up one poor iris. I don't know why. I keep replanting it, and they keep pulling it up. I'm going to move it to the back and put it in a pot and see how it does. But overall the irises look good, like they are alive and growing. The good new is it looks like we will be getting a fence. It will be mainly black 6 foot tall iron, but it will have stone work columns sprinkled in there. Since its about 350-375 feet of fence (maybe more) it will give me a large yard. I just hope it can keep the deer out. ...
Oh how my garden grows. Jan 29, 2013 Same plant Feb. 8, 2013 These were summer squash seeds I put in a pot in the greenhouse. The dates of the pictures are accurate. Good thing I only planted 4 seeds. I didn't expect but 1 or 2 to come up. Now we'll see how they make it thru the spring and summer. This is a before and after of oregano. This is a pot I had from last year. It wasn't doing much. Jan 29, 2013 But it is definintely picking up this year. Same pot Feb 8, 2013 I admit, I don't remember if this is peas, but I think it is. I set it from seeds. Jan 29, 2013 Same pot Feb 8, 2013 So it looks like the garden grows better then last year. I admit last year this time we were not in the house. So last year plants that got started, even in pots, started late, usually in the heat of summer. That anything survived is amazing. I even had a geranium in a ...
Glad to have nice weather back. Last week was cold, both day and night. One day we never got above 36 degrees. Today its almost 1:30pm and we are already at 64 degrees. Much nicer weather. I think we may have lost a few plants from last week's cold, but we will have to wait and see on that. Some of the plants in front look just brown, like they may have frozen. But I don't know if they have died. Some of the bulbs I planted are trying to grow. They would do better if the deer would leave them alone. But the deer outside are not looking good and are looking for whatever they can eat. Hopefully they will leave my bulbs alone long enough for the bulbs to grow. We can hope, and wait and see. The plants in the green house are doing fine. I did move some of the house plants that were outside into the green house. Most of those house plants look like they will survive, though they do show some signs of damage. ...
They didn't say how much rain, but we are getting some light rain again. We're not even up to a quarter of an inch, but at least its a slow light soaking rain. The ground will be happy even if we don't get a lot of water into the tanks. One interesting lesson - we had a green breathable plant blanket covering a set of plants. The plants were under a PVC frame, then the plant blanket on top of the PVC frame. Well, it may be breathable, but not a lot of water got to the plants. The center of the plant blanket, where water collected in a pool, was letting a small drip of water thru. We had a pool of water on top of the blanket. We just went outside to take the blanket off and realized that we had quite a pool of water on top of the blanket. Interesting thing to remember. They may be good blankets to keep frost off of the plants, but they don't necessarily let a lot of moisture thru them. Yesterday we had to go to Home Depot. I...