Im jealous of all the blooms I have NONE....1bunch of daffs are stunted...short trying to bud....

Oh Chelle,We still have HUGE standing Dead ash trees....we are leaving...They were too dead for the Loggers We have NoWay of Downing those Big Trees,Or could we cut the logs up,dont own an extra Large chainsaw....We still have LOTS of clean up left to do,from the loggers...Put a giant dent in the pile ...But its not gone yet....

REMC,came tho they want to cut more trees ....along the powerr line...which is good...it will clean up the ditch bank and we dont have to do it,and its FREE

Have a meeting today...Plant sale fundraiser...I m hoping to get outside today In my Gardens...

I am raking as many cones off of beds as I can.Deer ate ALL the emerged tulips to within a half inch of the ground.I could swear I sprayed a couple of days ago.

I am planting peas again today. Changed my mind and decided to plant the Cascada peas in four pots I have instead of that in ground spot. Instead I will plant some Norli snaps in ground. I thought I had those seeds and checked this morning and I did. I had planted the Norli in pots last fall, didn't think they produced well at all. Maybe they will be better in ground. Will plant those this afternoon. Meantime I planted four more pots already. I thought I had Cascada seeds but after I was finished I look at the bags (left over from last fall) and I see that they are not snap peas, Cascada or otherwise. They are Mammouth Melting Snow peas. Oh well. I like snow peas, grew them last year. So now I have four pots of snow peas planted. That will be it for snow peas for me this spring. I guess I will just put the rest of those Sugar Lace II snap peas I have in those last two big pots. Not today, I want to get this Norli peas planted in ground. They are shap peas.

Back inside for the day. Really tired as I have been working out in the garden these past few days and then afterward still doing my Gazelle machine workout as I am on a weight loss kick and have more weight still to loose. Don't know how much I will get done as I used up my energy out in the garden.

Working out in the garden today I see so many places where I could (and should) plant crocus as they would look so nice. Not that I didn't plant crocus last fall, I planted about 1,150. And I thought I did well at that number. But looking around it is apparent to me that I would need 5,000 more (yes 5,000) to plant them in most of the spots I think should have them.

Happy Easter Everyone!

I didn't work outside in the garden today. I just went outside and looked and looked and looked at all the tulips and daffodils comming up. As if all my looking is goning to make them grow faster ha-ha.

It is colder today and windy with no sun so it is just not that nice a day. I didn't stay out that long before I ended up back inside again.

I am already plotting my fall bulb order in my head. That is when I plan it, when the spring bulbs come up. I watch the blooms and plot so that by the time the spring show is done I know what I need to order for the fall. I fear it is going to be a whopping amount of bulbs again. This falls 4.999 bulbs was almost too much to plant and I bet I end up with an order just as large this year again.

Planting energy? High winds & dropping temp today.

Spring is bursting out all over here. I was gone for over 2 weeks, and lots of flowers everywhere.

freesias - a great harbinger of spring, and wonderfully fragrant

tree peony

Dogwood and azaleas

tulips and cerinthe purpurea

Beautiful

The forthyia bloomed last Nov. I doubt we will get spring bloom on those shrubs. We will enjoy everyone else's however.

Beautiful spring blooms. I especially like the freesias.

My onion sets that I ordered last week just arrived in the mail and so did the vetch and clover seeds I bought from Peaceful Vally Farm Supply. I should go out and plant them but I am not going too. It is too cold!!! Maybe tomorrow will be better. It would be if the wind died down.

Nasty wind here today. Had furnace cleaned & DH didn't like working outside either.

Beautiful pics, Dianne. Are your freesias planted in the ground outside? I just got some last year and have in a planter but they are not doing so well. Only a few blossoms.

That wind has been cold. I have kept my hooded sweatshirt on to work outside.

Sweet spring pictures, Dianne!

We just finished cutting up and clearing away our tree mess last evening...we have a yard again!

Still cold here, but we've had some sun so that's been nice. Crocus are the only blooms so far.

Seeds are sprouting in my wintersown jugs...a variety or three at a time.

I tried to loosen some soil yesterday to pull weeds, but it's still pretty much frozen.

Thanks, all.

Arlene - yes, the freesias are in the ground. We get about a dozen frost days here in Sacramento, but not enough to freeze anything that is in the soil so I am able to leave all the bulbs in the ground, including dahlia tubers.

Chelle - I have a few seeds sprouting too. I am hoping for a greater than 10% success rate this year.

I planted hairey vetch seed and crimsom clover seed also today. Next I will fix up the bare patches in my lawn with dutch white clover seed. I love clover in my lawn. I plant the crimson clover (an annual) just becasue it is so pretty. But not in my lawn. And that hairey vetch for the bees plus again I do think it is pretty. It might be somewhat early to plant the crimson clover but I have a lot of seed so if there are any problems I can redo. Not too early for the vetch, it is in the pea family. Both of these are often included in wildlife plots and both are also used as green manure or cover crops.

Plus I planted my onion sets. Now I have to go out and water all the stuff I planted.

Today the peas I planted in big pots are sprouting. So far I see nothing sprouting with the peas I put inground.

still a lot of frost in the ground here too...finally warming upa bit ...late afternoon....I soo want to start digging...I added another layer of shelves and lights to my grow set up...i have 24 flats under lights....Growing like mad

Soo wonderful to see all the blooming flowers....Rita ,dianne

I was working outside yesterday power washing fund raiser items that need to be painted....We took 4 trucks and got FREE POTS like 500 of them...for potting up sale plants ,we provide pots if you dig and donate...we got some really Nice BIG Heavy pots too we are going to spray paint them and sell them for a small amount...well Cheaper than store bought....we have alot to do to get ready....

John 'rough' weeded a couple iris bed, at least enough to see who had stayed over the winter.

Those peas in pots are doing so well that I planted two more pots. Used up the leftover Sugar Lace II seeds that I had. So I had four pots of Sugar Lace II and four pots of Snow peas. Now I will have six pots of Sugar Lace II.

I always have good luck planting peas in pots, I planted them in pots last spring. None in ground. Then last fall I planted them in pots again but did put some in ground. This fall I will be planing peas in pots also.

I watered all my peas including the inground ones. Those early inground ones (Super Sugar Snap) I planted March 21 and I don't see anything sprouting yet. But the pots I planted March 29 and March 30. So they sprouted quickly.

Hurray for spring peas.