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January 20, 2008
Diggin in the dirt
While the weekend is sunny and cool, we are taking advantage of it...i planted my 8 thornless blackberry stems (and the dog dug up some of them last night, thanks)...I'm still amazed and happy at how soft and easy to dig this soil is...we are amending it with compost and mulch, and as that breaks down, it creates an even better soil...feed the soil, not the plant...I put the blackberry stems back together again and put tomato cages around them to keep the dog away...and the cats too...freshly dug soil just invites critters to play...
Today Brian dug out more of the grass-infested yard...we composted, turned the soil and mulched..he's taking pics right now...
I'm ready to start planting! there's even a small yellow sulphur butterfly flitting around, but we have no food/flowers for anybody right now..he needs to head down the road to the nursery and find the pansies there...amazingly my parsley is still going great guns - it looks better now than when I planted it last summer...I'm surprised it has survived the 25 degree nights, but I'm happy to see it growing so well...I also researched mulching plants and found I had buried everything wrong, so I pulled all the mulch off the plants yesterday...otherwise they'd get warm and start growing - then when a freeze hit, it'd weaken the plants...I hope I haven't ruined them, but so far everything looks ok...and its not like we couldn't replace anything, its all very new and if one plant doesn't come back, putting in a new one won't be too costly...but still, I'd like to have a garden that comes back year after year, and I just have to add something new here or there, or add flowering annuals for blasts of color...I look forward to the Spring to see what pops up outta the ground and welcome the butterflies and hummingbirds back...
Posted by Donner at January 20, 2008 02:46 PM
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Planting??? LOL It's 18 degrees here and going down. Luuuv that cartoon.
Posted by: Nonie at January 20, 2008 09:19 PM