Weed-Feed-Mulch-Water

 

 

 

I started the late winter/early spring weeding and clean up last week. I weeded, fed, mulched, and watered the beds where the the lettuce, carrots, broccoli rhaab, Swiss chard, spinach, leeks, collard greens, and onions are growing. Four beds total. In one bed there is spinach, broccoli rhaab, and one pitiful little Swiss chard. That little chard has been just sitting there looking like a seedling for weeks and weeks. The clean up feeding and mulching was eight days ago. The little Swiss chard is about four times as big as it was last week. Amazing. The collards are also looking much better.

Today, I did the same thing to the garlic bed. The pictures above show the oak leaf lettuce, green leaf lettuce, and endive that volunteered in between the garlic. There are also little grape hyacinths growing in there as well. The weeds are gone, but these volunteers get to stay.

It will only be six weeks before I start planting tomato plants. Doesn't seem possible.

Now I am going back out to weed the cabbages.

GBBD Febuary 2009

 

Today is garden bloggers bloom day over at May Dreams Garden hosted by Carol. I imagined that many post will be about daffodils and other spring blooming bulbs. Mine will be more of the same. The collage shows the daffodils I have blooming right now. They include, jonquil, Earlicher, Minnow, and another large daffodil, which I cannot remember the name of. This year I am keeping a notebook where I will keep track of what is going on in my garden. Hopefully, I will not have large gaps in my garden memory in the future. If anyone can identify the large daffodil in the top center photo of the collage, please let me know what it is. Also in the collage is a picture of my Valentine's bouquet from Manly Man as well as the seed head from my cardoon plant.

Hop on over to Carol's Blog and check out what other bloggers have blooming now.

Easy Photo Meme

 

Okay this was painless. VP over at Veg Plotting passed on this photo meme. Look in your fourth computer photo file and post the fourth photo in it.

Here are the Monkeys a while back with a baby cousin who is pretty big now. Teenage Monkey still looks like a boy instead of a man child. The other two have changed a lot two. Everyone is taller and more angular.

VP opened this up to everyone who needs a little winter fun and I will do the same.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone.

A Visit to Dallas Farmers' Market

I had an appointment downtown today. I stopped off after at the farmers' market in Dallas. Two sheds were open. One had a big banner declaring "Buy Local" Well, I don't know where they got those locally grown cherries, but, hey, nice try. The produce did look very good and the prices were much much better than at the grocery store. Things were about half the cost or better. I did notice that I have much of what they are selling now right in my own back yard. I bought lemons, limes, blue berries (yes from texas), some nice looking onions, two nicely ripened avacadoes, and cherries. Yes, yes, I bought the cherries.

We are trying to develope a smaller farmers' market in Kaufman. Hopefully, next year, I will truly be buying locally.

Where do you buy your fruits and veggies?

Early Sweetheart

 

He did it again. Look what my yummy hubby did for me. He has to work the next two days so he brought me Valentine's Day early. Those are the best chocolates ever. The flowers are just beautiful.

Happy early Valentine's Day to all of you.

Migration Misery

I am so confused. I know I am supposed to migrate my feed from feedburner to google or something like that, but when I go to the tutorial I cannot find the place to sign on and make the changes. All I can find is starting a new feedburner feed. Then I go to try to just sign in on feedburner, and they say I don't have any feeds with them. Maybe I don't. Who knows? The confusion is probably from working a full day of library and being a little (or a lot) brain dead. Everyone seems be commenting on how easy it was. I am sure it is just me. If anyone feels sorry for me and can turn me in the right direction, it would be appreciated. Otherwise, I will muddle through on my own in over the next few days:(

Update, I did something, but not sure what. It looks the same to me on the feed. Don't have a clue if this is different and I should copy it over to blotanical or not. I hate feed issues. Seriously.

Random Stuff From My Day

I found out today that a local federal prison was a WWII detainment camp for female alien enemies. It must have sucked to be a German or Japanese American during those years. Learning a lot of local history while working at the library.

The tomato seedlings appear to like the storage container greenhouse. They were all standing straight and had grown a lot during the day. I love how fast these little guys shoot up when they like where they live. During the next week or so, it will be getting a little bit too cold at night for them. I will be bringing them inside after dark. It is so easy to move around.

The storms last night did no damage at all around here. We got very lucky. The news was full of stories about families who had their roofs blown off their homes. It was nice to read other local bloggers/friends in posts and comments today and know everyone is okay.

Lost was a little hard to watch tonight. That broken leg was gnarly . I need to go to the Lost unraveled website and try to figure some stuff out.