I am completely overwhelmed and swamped with non-garden stuff this week but wanted to check in - it's 87º today and I'm too busy with other stuff to even get outside! Ugh, just as well as that's way too hot for me. What happened to the period of nice 60º temps to do chores in without sweating?
Ready or not, things are happening!
Put on your squinty eyes, that's lettuce! I'm not very good with seeding this stuff, I just fling it in and thin it later :)
Spinach - but yikes it was 80 yesterday and we broke a record of 87º today, maybe Virginia is skipping spinach weather this year?
Self seeded Cilantro below, in MARCH? LOL...
Onions peeking up...
Irises peeking up...
Fountain grass has late April growth already, time to cut them all down. I've only gotten to this one so far, the rest are still 7 ft high and have birds nests in them - time to vacate!
Mazus is attracting the bees already. This ground cover is AMAZING if you can get it, spreads very quickly and the little flowers look like butterflies! Flowers last all season too...
Some herbs that wintered over this year in a pot -
After planting those 108 pansies last week...
this is what I have left...
I'm not sure who is the villain here, but tonight I'm leaving the window down on the screen door to these deck pots so Sprocket can alert me! I have a feeling it's the one squirrel we have that constantly is brave enough to sit on the railing and taunt the dogs. Left flowers all over the place and just ate the stems! Yes, I said "the one squirrel"... can you believe that they really aren't that common here? It took me a few years to even notice that I never saw them... it was only when I DID see one that I realized I hadn't for several years! Instead we have disgusting creatures like Nutria, Copperheads and Water Moccasins - I sure won't miss those when we move someday :)
This is some crazy warm weather. 87! And what is a Nutria? Sounds like some type of granola bar ;)
ReplyDeleteJane, you are going to think I'm nuts, but it's a rat the size of a river otter - no joke! Google it for some disgusting fun LOL... just think HUGE water rats :)
DeleteYour garden looks amazing! We just got another dump of snow. It's melting fast but the ground is covered again.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know squirrels would eat your plants. We have squirrels and they have never, that I know of, eaten the gardens. But then we have cats so that could be why they don't bother. It's the deer that are a big problem here and when the fruit comes in the bears get the fruit before it's ripe enough to pick.
87!!! I'd have a glass of ice tea and the a/c on. LOL!
Luckily no deer here! We have a 6 ft fence and our "beach deer" are the size of a dog LOL!
DeleteOmigosh, I cannot believe your 87 degrees! That's a record breaking day for us in the summer time! How can you still be sane after all those pansies have been decimated? You really think it's the squirrel? I'm with Sparkless in that I've never noticed any damage to flowers from the squirrels . . . and if we didn't control the population (ahem), we would be over-run with the things.
ReplyDeleteMama Pea, this PARTICULAR squirrel I think just has it out for me LOL!
DeleteIt has been rainy over here next to the mountains this afternoon and cooled off some. I still need to plow the garden if it ever dries out enough. You have been doing a lot of planting. I saw people eating nutria last night on the history channel, nasty looking things.
ReplyDeleteSunnybrook, oh that had me giggling!! I think I might have seen part of that show, I saw one once where they were having Louisiana law enforcement using nutria as a way to pass the time during slow nights and keep up their weapons skills LOL.... shooting and trapping them all night!
DeleteI wouldn't put anything past a squirrel! I just hate those darn things! They actually watch me plant and will just dig the plant up and toss it!
ReplyDeleteThis weather is crazy warm!
Robin, I knew someone had dealt with those evil little plant snatchers! :)
DeleteWAY TO HOT ALREADY,THEY SAID WE MIGHT HIT 80 NEXT WEEK,I CAN REMEMBER ONE EASTER WHEN MY DAUGHTER WAS 1,WE HEADED TO THE LAKE,IT WAS SO NICE, THROW THEN SQUIRRELS SOME NUTS SO THEY LEAVE THE FLOWERS ALONE---JK THE KIDS THREW SOME BREAD CRUMBS ON THE DECK TO WATCH THE SQUIRRELS COME UP-NOW THEY WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE-THEY NEVER CAME UP BEFORE ,THEY HAVE THERE TREES,LEAVE ME A LONE.I THINK I HEARD OF THOSE NUTRIA IN FLORIDA,CAME OVER WITH THE ASIANS ,GOTTA GO SWAG BUCK MY FACTS,MAYBE THOSE WERE SOMETHING ELSE,I'M GLAD WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING LIKE THAT
ReplyDeleteI am so glad to see that I'm not the only one who just sort of flings the lettuce seeds - they are just so darn tiny. Your ground cover looks really pretty. Where did you get it? Hubby is always looking for fast growing ground covers for the flower beds...
ReplyDeleteAnke, I mean to glue the seeds to tissue or something every year and do it nice and neatly, but honestly if I waited to have the time to do it that way I'd never have lettuce LOL!
DeleteOK,I think I'm wrong on the Florida creature but nutria furs,euuuuu,who would wear something from those ugly little creatures,ha,ha,ha
ReplyDeleteJudy, you are right about those furs, they were originally brought here to use them for that purpose but the little buggers got way out of hand!
DeleteI'm envious you have gardening weather... it's a mud pit here. I'd like to see the nutria, but the snakes would freak me out a bit. Hope you get some time to do something fun outside.
ReplyDeleteRuth, I hardly even remember the days of Minnesota when snakes were just a surprise that made you jump a bit but you could say they were "helpers" in the garden - here I teach the kids that ALL snakes are evil and they should run like hell! :) You get that way after finding copperheads too often near children's play areas :(
DeleteDratted squirrel. How do you keep your seeds moist enough to germinate? I have such trouble direct-seeding.
ReplyDeleteStefaneener, I've never had problems keeping spring seeds damp, I think we have significantly wetter springs than you, in the summer however it gets difficult!
DeleteIt's so stinkin' hot here too. What happened to our nice spring weather?!
ReplyDeleteChilly here again... not too bad, good for yard work without sweating, but the fog is crazy this weekend!
DeleteI'm going to have to google Nutria! :) Your plants now are what we usually have in mid to late June, I think! We're having crazy warm weather too. I wish this May-like weather meant that we could go ahead and plant the garden a month early. It is so tempting to be starting seedlings now, but we should have over two months before they can go into the garden. Crazy, crazy weather, but I'm loving it for now! :)
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