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please visit The Geeky Craftster instead, two blogs is silly. This page isn't going anywhere, I just won;t be posting here anymore. All garden news will be over at GC.

Garden Updates

Getting ready to till up the veggie garden, amending the soil. Planted wildflowers where the compost bin was.(Moved it to a more secluded spot.)Pics of the new plants from recycled gardens, and the other beds that are growing in nicely the second year. Flowers, trees, pretty plants, image heavy post.

Recycling plants?

Recycled gardens is a great place to get inexpensive mature plants and do two good things at once. Firstly, this is like a thrift shop for plants, the are being reused and resold. How cool is that?! And secondly, this volunteer run garden shop is for the benefit of POPPA, pet overpopulation prevention associates. The sale we went to last Saturday was crazy! and we got there a little before 10, when they "opened". Well, there was already like, 50 people or more there. And it was rainy. The sale was a dollar discount off their usual 4$ per gallon price. This is for any gallon size, its just multiplied by 4. 3 gallon pot? 12$. Ya see? I got 10 new plants for 51$. They are all adjusting well to their new location. However the weather has been snarky, and I am going to wait to take pictures. Some of them are still in the process of budding, sprouting, leafing out etc. anyways, so they will be prettier to look at in a month or so. Especially if the seeds I planted for ground cover take off.
It was fun. If you live in Oregon, this place is worth your time.

gardening a gardening

The indoor seeds are all sprouted, with the exception of the asparagus but i think that is on it's way up.
the side "lawn" has been thatched and a new bed has been dug and bordered around it.
I say "lawn" because it is only maybe 1/4 part grass, the rest is buttercups, MOSS (lots of moss) and these evil weeds that are ferny and pretty with red stems that are runners, I hate them, except that they are pretty if they are not in a place where you don't want them. so now the "lawn" is a scraggly patch of muddy clay and buttercups and grass and moss. I am hoping the grass will win and redistribute itself. If not I may seed it.
I am more excited about the new beds around the border. You see Saturday Matt and J9 and I are going to a PLANT SALE, with GALLON plants for THREE(!) dollars. I can fill this new bed for 40$! so exciting. it will look so-much-better. I am sure the neighbors will also be happy since their window is more or less parallel to the ugly little patch of "lawn".
I am also thinking of where to distribute the herp and flower seeds that are not to be started indoors. I think i shall wait until after Saturday, cause then I will not have seeds in places where a hole will need to be dug. Seems a logical step.

Yesterday Matt mowed and I whacked and the lawn is trim. I started to weed the vegetable bed and opted to just cover it with weighted tarps to kill all the stuff first. so those beds will be dealt with in a week or two. No worries as nothing really gets to go to 'bed' until May anywho.

Today is sunny and warmish and so it was nice to have a trim yard to work in, except i was working on the unruly, bad haircut part of the yard.

Springing into Action

Oregon is awash in rain, rain, rain. The trees are all blooming, and it's snowing blossom petals too. It's lovely, chilly, and wet. I long to go actualy dig in the dirt, to till soil and turn and sift compost. To plant seeds that can be planted outside right now. But I am lucky if I can mow the unkept lawn when it needs it.
However, indoors, magical things are happening...