We had the first BBQ of the summer this weekend - hot dogs on the deck at lunch - yeah! It's getting warm fast, though the nights are still down in the 40's. This weekend it was all about the garden again, getting it ready for summer!
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| The under-deck area used to be covered in ivy - to the point where it was ripping up the deck boards. I pulled it out of the beds and pruned it way back on the trellis this weekend. Re-mulched the beds and planted a few new plants. Some bulbs have even come up - surprised to see them in an ivy bed so thick! |
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| Our rock garden area - cleaned up of leaves and planted some lily of the valley. It's tough finding enough shade plants to go here, but we're going to reclaim some stone to make a stone fireplace for this area soon, so it'd be nice to have some flowers in the backdrop! |
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| The veggies are in! Under their little wax paper tepees! These "hats" help keep them warm at night, and protect them from deer eating the shoots - i'm hoping they work, it's all an experiment to see if we can extend the growing season here! |
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| There used to be a large decorative bush here. We pulled it out this weekend and replaced it with blueberry bushes (4 in total) and rocks reclaimed from the woods - "Blueberry Henge" we've called it! Not sure i'm going to have enough patience to wait the year or two before we get berries! |
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| Blueberry Henge! The stones were originally placed so I could pull the hose around and not damage the plants - but we liked the henge look so much we pulled up two more rocks and placed them on the inside....:) |
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