The bulbs here look pretty happy too, though some are raggedy at the top...
My seeds haven't sprouted yet but they're not due to yet, either. Have been keeping them moist, I'm hopeful.
The first of my lettuce seeds are up today. I spent the morning cutting back a bed of pachysandra that was beginning to encroach on my northern flower bed and moved a hundred or so plugs into an area under the trees on the east side.
It's warm and sunny and I got to play in the dirt. It's a good day.
eastern lake ontario : some poppies - along the south side of the house - are starting to emerge from amidst the leaves and bark spread on the bed last fall. reached PLUS 12 C today - seems winter is ready to go grudgingly. hbg
Ow.
My back.
My hands.
Just worked my butt off for several hours in the garden. Lots to show for it, but ow.
Will lay down some grass seed tomorrow.
soz : easy does it ! (learned it the hard way !). the weeds that you dont't pull today will wait for you tomorrow; the raking you don't do today can still be done tomorrow. GREEN THUMBS UP ! ( OUCH ). hbg
crucus buds are about to pop even in my shady, cool yard.
My yard looks positively disgusting.
Clumps of now dirty snow.
Chunks of ice.
Puddles.
Dead grass.
A pile of leaves that didn't get bagged before the BIG snow.
Junk that got into the yard somehow - how do clumps of ick get over an 8 foot fence anyway.
On the upside, things are melting, the fact that I can see the dead grass is promising.
A major backyard cleanup and raking is needed. Trying to figure out how to do it around the ice and snow.
yep, mine too, well, the snow has slowly receded to almost gone (at least on the garden beds), the old leaves are being raked up as the snow melts (sort of).
It was fun. In a feel-the-burn sort of way.
It hurts to type tho.
I was operating under the assumption that it was going to rain tomorrow and be rainy for a few days after -- the forecast of this morning -- but now the forecast is sunny tomorrow and no rain 'til Friday. So I have more time.
Red letter garden day -- viola seeds have sprouted!!
<happy dance>
That must be quite a string garden sozebe. Is there a wind section too?
I call those "johhny jump ups". Dunno why.
"Little stepmothers" they are called in German :wink:
I don't plant those in spring, since they have been on the balcony since autumn.
Planted today a couple of roses, some marguerites already in full blossom and small summer flowers which hopefully will be 'adulted' by May/June.
Violas/johnny-jump-ups--like the pansy descended from violets.
They are also known as "heartsease".
Pity they don't work for sore muscles.
Those are called Johnny Jump Ups here, too.
Yep, if I see "johnny jump-up" that's what I'd think of. Called violas on the seed packet, so going by that. (I'm beyond thrilled that they actually sprouted! I know there's a long way to go from here, but wheee!)
ohhhh, I love violas. Soz, if you let them go to to seed, they'll self seed next year. Maybe not exactly where you want them but I dig them up and move them around every year.
On the herb front, it seems my chives are doing well and the tarragon is sending up shoots. The sage is still looking ratty and there's no signs of the parsley or cilantro yet. I planted some 'hardy' rosemary last year that was supposed to be ok for zone 6. We're zone 5b, but my south bed is protected and right up against the house so I thought I'd give it a shot for getting through the winter. I put a bunch of pine boughs over the plants for protection. They don't look very good, but I'll wait a bit before declaring them done for.
Still no signs of the dicentra. I don't understand it - I have 6 huge plants and I don't see any of them.
