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Apr
12
5:45 pm, Saturday Evening
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It has been a gorgeous day although it was about 27° it did warm up to 66°. After getting my haircut and stopping at the grocery store I came and started to work in the vegetable garden.
I cut back the dead wood on the herbs, tarragon, thyme, chives and marjoram. My rosemary that has spent the winter in the greenhouse had gotten dried out, I guess I needed to water it more, I watered it and hopefully it will come back.
I was able to turn and prepare the raised beds. Tomorrow I will plant my spinach and snap peas. The garden cleaned up fairly easily but there is still a lot of work to do.
There is still snow up there. While all but one of the raised bed is cleared of south there is still a good amount of snow in the garden. The one bed that is still covered is where I planted garlic in the fall. I can’t tell it starting to grow in that bed, but it is coming up in another bed where I planted it.
I was checking out how the strawberries faired thru the winter. I can see some new growth starting on some of the plants. There are enough plants in there so I think I should have a good crop of them this year.
Off to cook dinner and the watch Atonement.
Apr
12
5:45 am, Saturday Morning
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This weekend holds such promise. Today the temperatures are to reach into the mid 60’s and on Sunday they are supposed to reach the high 60’s. Finally, at long last some nice weather. I hardly know where to begin on all the stuff I want to do outside.
There is the car that needs to be washed and vacuumed to get rid of all the winter dirt inside and out.
The snow has melted enough that I can now get into my vegetable garden, when I was up there on Wednesday evening there was still a lot of snow but I could see most of my raised beds.
There is a lot of clean up to do, cutting back the dead fall on my tarragon (which I think may have survived, keeping my fingers crossed.) and parsley. Removing the old tomato plants, preparing beds to plant spinach and snap peas. I planted them early last year and they grew quite well.
The garlic I planted in the fall is coming up I can see the tips of it poking thru the soil.
Since I started this post the sun is up and it is light outside so I am off to start my day. More later