I spent a little over an hour in the garden earlier today. Above you can see the first bud of the season on my lady of shallot rose. I had cut it way back last month, cleaned up the pot and gave it a boost from my rose fertilizer spikes and it has just exploded with growth and makes me so very happy.
This is the plant below. In the blue/green pot on the right, which I usually plant with veggies I have several tree saplings coming up. I'm planning to pot them up to see if I can get them to grow so I can hopefully plant them in the woods in a few years to help block the security lights from the building behind the woods. (Or, if I find my dream home and move take them with me and plant at my new home. 😊)
While I was working it started to rain, which felt wonderful as the humidity was ridiculous and felt like breathing through soup.
I went down to check on the new fleur bed and I *think* I see some sprouting things. Gosh, I hope all those seeds will sprout. I NEED fleurs!
Did I tell you about my new muck boots? Aren't they cute?! They fold down and can be worn 3 different ways and are super fabulous! I have large calves so it is hard for me to find boots/wellies like this. Luckily, someone suggested I look at The Muck Boot Company and I found these on sale.
Now I need to find a tray or something to keep them on by the back door as they sure do get dirty.
My spinach is growing nicely. Yay!
Below you can see where I've cleaned out the veg bed and started prepping it. I need more manure and planting mix to increase the depth, but other than that it will be ready for planting tomorrow.
The black pot has the lettuce I started when I started the spinach. Well, that's what I've been working on today, between, watching the news, my usual everyday stuff and waking up a few hours late. I swear it takes me 3x as long to do things than it should and is very frustrating.
I'm glad I gave up when I did and came in (I worked in the rain for about 40 minutes) because about 30 minutes later, the bottom fell out of the sky, and we had very heavy rain.
I think that is it for me today. I've a bag of limes I need to juice/slice/zest and freeze so I need to head to the kitchen for a bit.
I hope you are having a good week. What are you up to this week? Any exciting projects?
Thanks for reading along...
love & magicks
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