winnow…

26 Sunday Sep 2021

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been collecting seeds for the last week or so…

the morning glories are very simple… I just put one hand under the little pod and squish it with the other… then I winnow the part holding it together by blowing over my hand… the excess blows away and the seeds remain and can be popped into a container…

the datura are a bit more complicated… the seed pods are covered in very sharp spikes which try to hurt me, lol…

I now have a container for each of the two types I have grown this year… the lovely white ones and the smaller, but cute, purple ones…

it is best to wait for the pods to start cracking as they dry, which makes removing them slightly easier… the dryer they are, the easier to remove…

I have quite a collection…

mound…

25 Saturday Sep 2021

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had a great time with Hilda the Gardener this afternoon…

we discussed plans for the next month or so, and for the spring…

she moved some soil for me and I finished filling up the new raised bed…

she also brought the mandevilla up onto the deck… it will be coming into the house before too long..

she moved baby’s breath, silver mound and milkweed to what I hope will be better spots…

and removed some of the weeds in the side garden…

it always makes me happy to see the difference once she’s been here…

songs…

24 Friday Sep 2021

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so blessed to get to spend time in the garden watching the birds…

yesterday, there were house sparrows, white throated sparrows, chickadees, nuthatches, juncos, and even a couple of blue jays…

lots of chatter, songs, dust and water baths… also they are gobbling up the birdseed and had many trips to drink from the pond…

only saw a couple of squirrels, lol…

side…

23 Thursday Sep 2021

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busy time in the garden…

last night we moved the filing cabinet raised bed from the garage to the side garden…

today on this beautiful, mostly sunny, day, I lifted and repositioned a number of the rocks in that area to sit around it… some of them were rather large and heavy, lol… I have collected them from all over Manitoba…

I think the area looks good and plan on filling the raised bed with bits of wood and soil to get it ready for spring…

filing…

22 Wednesday Sep 2021

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recently I’ve been on a roll with construction… yesterday I spent time in the garage working on the new filing cabinet raised planter…

I saw something on social media where someone used old filing cabinets to make raised flower beds… seemed like a great idea and I had a four drawer filing cabinet in the basement that needed to be cleaned out…

last week my grandson and his friend removed the drawers – which I still have to empty – and took the cabinet outside…

they put a number of holes in the new bottom to provide drainage… the metal was really thick and it took a while to produce the holes…

it was a very sad brown colour, so he spray painted it a lovely shade of gray and set it inside the garage to cure…

yesterday I dug out various bits and pieces of insulation which I cut to size and put all around the inside… and I knew where all the things I needed were, lol…