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glitters…

19 Monday May 2025

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on May 9th, we found the chicken wire we’ve been looking for, to add to the arches in the side garden…

I am hoping this will make it easier for the peas, cucumbers, and beans to climb up and over the space;-)…

my housemate did a great job of zip tying it all around the arch, and it kind of glitters;-)…

peas were planted and have already popped through the soil…

sprinkled…

02 Tuesday Jul 2024

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Monday, while supper was cooking on Barbie, the barbecue, my housemate sprinkled grass seed over the non-grassed areas in the garden…

it had been raining off and on all day and was supposed to continue all day today…

after putting down the grass he used the last of the soil to cover everything and then raked it over…

now I have been directed to water every single day unless it rains;-(…

raining…

15 Wednesday May 2024

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up early yesterday, had a quick breakfast, and headed out to get some gardening done before the rain started…

brought out the baskets…

put on my gloves, gathered up seeds, soil, tags, and tools…

emptied one of the nine vegetable planter boxes and then as I dug in fertilizer and loosened up the soil, I removed a bit of soil from each pot and then added in fresh soil…

next I planted peas and beans in the area where they will be able to grow up the arch…

I also planted some in the file cabinet planter so they can grow up the other side of the arch…

the cucumbers and tomatoes will go into the remaining pots around the end of the month… I have a few butternut squash seeds to put in as well…

and then it started raining, so everything got put away and I came into the house, lol…

dragged…

26 Friday Apr 2024

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Wednesday was a beautiful day in the garden…

went under the top deck and dragged out the planters that fit around it…

loosened the soil and got them ready for planting at the end of May;-)…

that seems like a long time to wait… they were all completely thawed out, but I was happy to get them into the sun…

this year I am going to have more white in the garden and a bit less purple… can you believe it🤪…

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…

soil…

05 Monday Jun 2023

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on Friday, Hilda the Gardener arrived just before a thunderstorm to work in the garden… while we waited for the rain to stop we made tea and drank it on the deck once the storm was over…

then she planted up the front pots and moved a few things around in the garden…

the pots were filled with the bits and pieces left over from the plant collection that hadn’t made it into soil… they look pretty good considering, lol…

clever…

04 Thursday May 2023

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on Monday I received a birthday present in the mail…

it is a plastic envelope with a disk of soil, a popsicle stick and seeds…

it will turn into sunflower micro greens…

this morning, after going online for directions, I added water, stirred up the soil, added the seeds, stirred it a bit more, misted it and put it into the sunshine;-)…

will be checking it out daily to see how it grows…

what a clever idea and lovely gift;-)…

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…

workers…

30 Sunday May 2021

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well, what a day… the workers were here for eight hours and got a huge amount of work done… I took a few photos before they arrived…

the cedars were trimmed… the wooden path in the shade garden was removed and replaced with patio stones, which were lifted from the remainder of the garden…

extra stones and the old wooden path were placed neatly beside the garage for a future project…

a portion of the lawn was levelled… soil was put down, tamped and covered with grass seed…

the rain held off all day as clouds came and went, which meant it wasn’t too hot for the workers…

there is still a small pile of soil, but that may go into the flower beds or be used to level out the front yard;-)…

a few pieces of work still need to happen, but it is going to look great once the grass comes up…