Bed Bed

..this is one of my new beds! This was my Gram's (gr-grandma) who passed in 1969. I inherited it when my grandma passed in 1989. It has sat in a shed since 1996. humm didnt realize how much "junk" sits around till you write it down lol..

Anyway, my hubby made a frame for it today. it measures 2x6! Oh yea! No odd measures! I don't know exactly what for yet..I am thinking herbs and flowers.


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The area it is sitting in will be landscaped with timbers and white gravel next week. So the bed and the cart (daughter got me for M's Day) will be sitting with the butterfly chair (another dd go me for M's Day). The little white table and chairs for the gnomes will be in there too

My family tends to get me my pretties early so I can use them lol..so Mother's Day in April and my birthday presents not in November but in Sept.


We went compost/board shopping Tues. Hubby is putting together another 2x6 for my determinate tomatoes and two 4x6s this afternoon. So I think I will rent a cement mixer to mix the MM this time!

Forgot, he is also building the bases for three potato bins lol..busy man..


PS this post should have showed up yesterday but for some reason it didn't...

Greenhouse

Ben got me a 5x5 pop up greenhouse at Menards for $80! I love it! And my babies do too!

My babies love it!
Now I am not so crazy about checking the temp all the time...but I'll get used to it! And it is only for the spring and fall..
I will take it down and put it back up in the fall over a 4x4 to extend the season/

Seed mat tray went boom

The cookbooks on the shelf above fell on the light and that pushed my warming tray off! Now I have no idea what is what! At least is didn't knock my seedlings off!

Seed starting

Yup it is that time of year. Because I have a amour for my laptop where my grow  cabinet was, this year Ben set me up a light over the cabinet in the kitchen.

Babies! 

The garden is doing well

I have potato onions that I am trying out this year.

Supposed to be able to NOT buy onions in a couple of years..just save and replant like I do garlic.
They are funny looking!

Speaking of garlic..Ben made me an awesome 4x6 bed for trying garlic last fall..picked 4 different kinds and planted 30 bulbs of each..Darned if they didnt almost ALL come up! So I have garlic to try this summer. The one or two I like best I will continue to plant. NO MORE BUYING GARLIC! lol....

Blooming

Lots of things in bloom today.

Lilacs -- Dark purple not blooming yet.

My flowering almond the kids got me tree years ago for Mother's Day.

The redbud tree next door

My honeysuckle

Tulips 

The little tree the kids got me a few years ago

but not my butterfly bush lol..Ben ran over it with the lawn mower..but it will come back..it has green at the crown.

 

And some hyacinths I planted this year in my basket.

And I can't forget the flowering crab apple tree.

My Angels

We call this picture "Good Angel, Bad Angel" rofl...

This was in 2002 ready for the Eagles Halloween Dance.