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mess-making…

13 Wednesday Nov 2024

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Saturday’s project was to transplant the lemon tree and the fern…

had to run out to the garage to get gloves and into the basement for a pail and spoon, lol…

after a bit of digging and mess-making the two plants were in their new pots, trimmed, fertilized, and watered…

the fern was absolutely jammed into the pot and took quite a bit of work to get it thinned out, cut back and set into its new home…

it was much simpler to put the lemon tree into the larger pot and add some soil… it looks good;-)… I cannot remember when I started this, maybe this spring or last spring, lol…

hopefully they will both thrive…

clinging…

05 Tuesday Nov 2024

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brought the dahlia tubers up from the basement to finish putting them to bed for the winter…

I cleaned off the last of the dirt that was clinging to them, separated them by type, cut off miscellaneous bits, and divided them up…

once they were in paper bags, they went into a box to be stored in the basement and the leftover bits and dirt made their way to the garbage bin…

happy to get that job done and hopeful they will all start to grow come spring;-)…

nearly…

23 Thursday May 2024

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the work started on Saturday with three of us…

Sunday my housemate and I worked away at the process and Monday we were back to three strong… a ton of work was accomplished and the job was nearly finished…

Tuesday we worked on a few bits and pieces, including levelling the back gate…

after some clever thinking the sunburst gates were rehung…

Wednesday morning we attached the last board to the bottom deck… woohoo…

I filled the space below it with dirt, but will have to add a bit more as it settles;-)…

shovels…

07 Tuesday May 2024

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this morning there was lots of activity in the lane…

many tools were used… the sledgehammer, two types of shovels, a broom and pails…

a lot of broken concrete, rocks, stones, and soil were gathered, piled into the back of a truck and then taken to the landfill…

but, it is much tidier and with a bit more work done to it, will be much more useful for placing yard waste;-)…

all that activity brought out a few neighbours as well, lol…

shrivelled…

20 Monday Nov 2023

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all of the garden work has now been completed for the winter… yay…

about a week ago I finished cleaning and putting away the last pond pump…

Saturday I finally got around to the dahlias… after watching a few videos, I used a knife to clean out the bits of dirt that were still on the tubers and then cut them to separate those with eyes, which should produce next year…

after doing a bit of research, I left a few (after cleaning them), to see if I will be able to separate them more easily in the spring when they start to sprout…

packaged them in paper bags, put them back in the pot, which went into a box in the coolest area of the basement… and wrote on the box to remember that is where they are, lol…

we will see what shape they are come spring… sometimes when the bags are open, there is nothing but shrivelled up bits of nothing;-(…

always an experiment…

beds…

17 Thursday Aug 2023

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Tuesday, our neighbour, who had moved away, came by to remove a couple of very large planters that were filled with great soil… they had been using them for their veggie gardens and decided to take the beds apart and shovel the soil into their trailer to reuse at the new house as they are renting this one out…

happily I was allowed three wheelbarrows full of the great soil…

then it had to be raked across the grass to help level it out…

looks bad now, but I am excited to see how it will look in a few weeks…

dirt…

06 Saturday May 2023

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on Friday the dahlias came up from the basement…

two years ago when I brought them in, I removed all the soil, bagged each one, labelled them and put them away in the dark in the basement…

when I brought them in last fall, I didn’t even take off the dirt… they went into a pail, which went onto a shelf in the laundry area… so, not even in the dark… and I had no idea which type they were, lol…

when the pail came upstairs on Friday I wasn’t expecting much and was pleasantly surprised…

at least four of the clumps had new growth… I am very excited about this… currently they are sitting on the table in the sun…

soon they will be planted in pots in the garden;-)…

sunshiny day…

08 Tuesday Apr 2014

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sun was shining all day long… perks me up… every day it is getting warmer as it shines into the yard, or through the windows…

on my way out to the car this morning I took this picture of the sidewalk and snow…

20140408-205353.jpg you can see how one side is still covered in snow, but the other side shows lots of grass and the snow bank is much smaller…

every night when I get home the backyard seems to have less snow in it… there is lots of dirt coming into view… these are the spots where the landscapers tried to put down soil and grass seed to see if they could level out some of the dips they created during the pond construction… doesn’t look very grassy just yet, lol…

tonight I baked chicken thighs, made some basmati rice and prepared a glass of carrot juice… haven’t cooked a proper supper during the week for a while and really enjoyed it… there’s enough for lunch tomorrow…

feels like I will be sitting out on the deck before you know it…