#virburnum

[inthecityofgoodabode]

March 2024: More Spring Stuff & Happy Saint Patrick's Day

Join me human:

As I watch the sun set:

We did some planting & transplanting this week:

Including some store-bought ginger that we're propagating. If all goes according to plan, we should have 5 to 6 ginger plants:

First bee butt of 2024:

My queen is drying dandelion leaves. You're supposed to be able to make a concoction with them that is beneficial in the garden. We'll see. If the results are noticeably beneficial, I'll post a follow up later in the year:

I can't believe the size of the leaves of this cilantro. You can't buy this in the grocery store:

This is the second day after planting these sweet potato slips & they are already perked up & happy:

Our 3 year old Red Russian Kale after harvesting this week:

We went to a local hardware store to see about getting some repairs done to our mini tiller. Turns out the repair department is closed on Sundays so this happened instead:

For Saint Patrick's Day, it was a nice warm Spring day but the temperature starting dropping as we're expecting an overnight low in the mid-30s Fahrenheit. Perfect fire pit weather:

[nordicsublime]

[garden-days]

[inthecityofgoodabode]

Dogwood & Assassin

Dogwood blossom with pale green assassin bug: 

This is the view from our deck box. I like sitting on top of it: 

We will have pulled hundreds of these elm saplings out of every pot & inch of dirt in our backyard. If left on its own, our yard would be a grove of elms & oaks: 

My wife has plans to use these tubs as planters for lettuce out at Plot 420 but wanted them raised off the ground to discourage rabbits. I was going to build a structure with some scrap wood that we have but I found this on the curb while I was walking the dogs & it fits the bill nicely:  

[garden-days]

9.11.18. The viburnum is flowering and the leucothoe has turned a lovely red.

[inka1712]

Virburnum

[thegildedmirror]

Fieldwork basket weave purse to hold vellum envelopes,

test tubes for seeds, notes, etc. [TIH]

[deccadeb]

More Elaeagnus!.. on the dessert table..some dessert selections were made by the 2 Grandmothers and Groom’s Mother..this table not quite finished with the set up...little peanut butter parfaits had not arrived yet and were displayed in a vintage suitcase!.. all so adorable!... this is a pool table in @sleepyhollowbarn that can’t be moved so it was covered with a burlap skirt first, then a cloth and that jugunda floral arrangement filled with that problematic Elaeagnus, Virnurnums I had cut at a junkyard on the way to start decorating yesterday morning !.. #deborahgibsondesign #elaeagnus #virburnum #pooltable #desserttable (at Issaqueena Trails)