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The Vegetable Garden 2011

It’s almost Summer (I think). Every late Winter to early Spring I get very gung ho about the garden. Usually this happens because it warms up, and makes me think Summer’s on the way and it’s time to get started. Not so much this year… yeah, we had a couple over 100 degree days, and set a record or two, but mostly it’s been cold, and windy. Which hasn’t done much for my gardening motivation. We’ve also had little to no rain… But that’s about to change (finger’s crossed). This week it’s supposed to rain for a couple days, and there’s chances for rain for the next 9 or 10 days, so I decided to get off my duff and get out in the garden! Over the weekend we planted way too many watermelon and...

Posted by Jackie Lee on May 18, 2011 in Gardening | 3 comments

Bad Bad Chicken

These chickens are pushing their luck ~ seriously. I finally, after 10 years, was able to grow 3 canteloupes this year. Granted, I didn’t plant them, they just came up outta no where, but still ~ they count Anyway, I went out today to check on the garden only to find my canteloupes had been attacked by the damn chickens. not only that they had trampled the whole area. grrr. They of course left the brussell sprouts completely alone lol As we were walking back to the house, after the chickens got a good talking to, we noticed one chicken had grabbed a little snake and was very happy. She ran away so she didn’t have to share her yummy with anyone else. Then I was checking out my pumpkin ~ which just like the canteloupe showed up out of no where. I...

Posted by Jackie Lee on Aug 11, 2009 in Gardening | 0 comments

Reclaiming My Garden Space ~ Got Any Tips?

We have this crazy patch of space in the middle of our walkway. When we moved in I filled it with Iris. For some reason, my husband didn’t like it and at one point I took them all out. Then the space just ended up being a big weed pile. A few years ago, a couple random trees showed up, and Ryan “planned” to pull them out, because we didn’t really want trees that close to the house. However, that never really happened. Now we have two nice sized trees in this space, and some of the iris have come back from no where. AND some Holly Hocks have magically appeared there as well. The Holly Hocks started showing up a couple years ago, but Ryan didn’t know they were plants and mowing them down with the weedwacker. This really annoyed me...