Yard & Garden Wonders - End of April
Toads are back? (I think maybe both of them?) As of Friday and Sunday morning (May 1 & 3)... saw the smaller yellowy one--hopped into the square pansy pot. Disappeared under the soil. Day goes by. I am sad thinking the larger, dark one is dead. Sunday morning, all of a sudden there is a big dark snout in the pansy pot. Definitely not the yellow one. Hah--we haven't been plant shopping, so there is nothing for them to kill.
Morning dove nest in the pine tree.
Load those photos. Pretty soon we see 2 little tails. Think one of them fledged yesterday. The second one is still sitting on a branch pretty high up, looking forlorn.
That terrible hard freeze.
What was affected. (I made a list). Killed ALL the fruit--plum, apples, peaches. Just won't be any. :(
Watching them try again.
The elm seedling blizzards.
Now the elm weedlings
V E R Y slowly, the Jupiter's beard is starting to bloom. So are the lipstick red Penstemons. The Salvia in the herb bed. A few yarrow. Saw the first chocolate flowers Saturday morning. :) Oh, and the snapdragons.
Sunflowers
The middle of last week, I put the sunflowers G grew from seed into the ground. Hopefully where we will see and enjoy them from our little shaded sitting area. Then yesterday, planted a bunch of sunflower seeds and zinnia seeds too. 7-14 days germination. 70-80 days to bloom. In a couple of places, I got the soil ready. Still need to put in seed.
Just today, G finally planted the splendid tomato seedlings Maria gave us/ that we have tended for what seems like a long time. (Carrying them in and out every day). I was a little bit sad: no big fat traditional red varieties... lots of crazy colors. (Do not tend to produce well, and may or may not have great flavor.) Anyway: most of them are in.
2 million years ago, before the pandemic, we got piles of seeds from Plants of the Southwest. And on impulse I tossed in a bundle of mixed onion starts. Gloria got those planted in a timely way. They actually look very good. Maybe a week after that? Or two? She put in lettuce and spinach and kale and chard. Those all look good too. Survived the bitter cold. Now 2" tall, with real leaves. (There's a lot of hope out there...)
Hot and dry, dry, dry.
Morning dove nest in the pine tree.
Load those photos. Pretty soon we see 2 little tails. Think one of them fledged yesterday. The second one is still sitting on a branch pretty high up, looking forlorn.
That terrible hard freeze.
What was affected. (I made a list). Killed ALL the fruit--plum, apples, peaches. Just won't be any. :(
Watching them try again.
The elm seedling blizzards.
Now the elm weedlings
V E R Y slowly, the Jupiter's beard is starting to bloom. So are the lipstick red Penstemons. The Salvia in the herb bed. A few yarrow. Saw the first chocolate flowers Saturday morning. :) Oh, and the snapdragons.
Sunflowers
The middle of last week, I put the sunflowers G grew from seed into the ground. Hopefully where we will see and enjoy them from our little shaded sitting area. Then yesterday, planted a bunch of sunflower seeds and zinnia seeds too. 7-14 days germination. 70-80 days to bloom. In a couple of places, I got the soil ready. Still need to put in seed.
Just today, G finally planted the splendid tomato seedlings Maria gave us/ that we have tended for what seems like a long time. (Carrying them in and out every day). I was a little bit sad: no big fat traditional red varieties... lots of crazy colors. (Do not tend to produce well, and may or may not have great flavor.) Anyway: most of them are in.
2 million years ago, before the pandemic, we got piles of seeds from Plants of the Southwest. And on impulse I tossed in a bundle of mixed onion starts. Gloria got those planted in a timely way. They actually look very good. Maybe a week after that? Or two? She put in lettuce and spinach and kale and chard. Those all look good too. Survived the bitter cold. Now 2" tall, with real leaves. (There's a lot of hope out there...)
Hot and dry, dry, dry.
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