Go figure. Yesterday (Friday) they said today's (Saturday) forecast was a high of 86. That has now changed to a high of 70. It's already noon and we are not even up to 60. Hopefully we'll get to 70, but we'll see. The deer are not happy with the fence. They keep coming up to it and looking in, like kids staring at a candy store they can't go into. I figure they'll get over it. But we did get a bird feeder up. And the birds have already found it and are coming. We did find some old niger/nyjer seed. The birds won't eat it but we put some outside the fence, just trying to get rid of it. Well the deer like the niger/nyjer seed. The greenhouse is doing great. The squash plants have blossoms so hopefully we will get squashes soon. The herbs are doing very well. Even the berry bushes are putting out new leaves and growth. I have had one unusual problem. I set some seeds out on a tray, it came with those compre...
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Go figure. I planted how many daffodils and only one came up. I know, be thankful I got one. Maybe the others will bloom. But its mid March and that's the only one so I'm not real hopeful. Maybe we just didn't get enough cold. I don't know. But the fence has come along nicely. Its 6 feet tall and will hopefully keep the deer out. That remains to be seen, but we can hope. supplies construction lots of fence portion of front fence I'm rather excited about the fence. I'll be able to actually put plants out in the yard. I'll be able to plant the new roses. I'll be able to get some stuff out of the greenhouse! Now if the deer will just cooperate and stay out.
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.
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 ...