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The weather finally warmed up enough to start
working out on the property with my gardens. Bug wasn’t too happy with me; I
left her in the house so I could plant flower seeds in the dirt. She just loves to roll around upside down in
the dirt, and I really didn’t want to have to clean her up before bringing her
in the house; so she had to stay inside while I played in the dirt.
I tackled the front porch flower boxes. I started pulling up all the weeds and
leaves, leveled out the existing soil, added new garden soil to the boxes, and
mixed the old soil with the new soil.
I then replaced the chicken wire on top of the
garden before planting my seeds. Okay, I
can see you’re questioning why I have chicken wire on top of my garden
boxes. I do this to prevent the feral
cats in the area from using my flower boxes as litter boxes. The feral cats don’t like me too much, but
I’m okay with that.
With my fingers, I created 3 rows by making little
holes, and then I planted Amaranth in the row closest to the house in each
flower box. The second row, I planted
Chamomile and Shasta daisies. The final
row, I planted Texas Blue Bonnets.
Then I watered each flower bed really well. Now I need to find metal clips like those
used for holding tents down, to help keep the chicken wire down in the flower
garden beds.
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Bulldog Man
loves peach cobbler, and I knew I had a bag of frozen peaches in the freezer
and some fresh strawberries I needed to use. So instead of making a cobbler for
hubby, I made a peach and strawberry crumble.
I used this
recipe recently found on the Food Network Site by Giada De Laurentiis. The crumble was out of this world; Bulldog
Man rated it with 4 paws.
Bug is such a doll!
ReplyDeleteI love playing in the dirt too.
Gail,
DeleteShe is such a sweet heart.
Tomorrow will be more playing in the dirt :-)
Great idea using the chicken wire. The flowerbeds will be beautiful when in bloom, you'll have to show photos. The crumble sounds like something the hubster would love!
ReplyDeleteKatie,
DeleteThanks on the chicken wire. I tried everything and this was my final straw. The crumble is amazing.
I will provide pictures once the flowers are up and blooming.
I am so glad it has warmed up for us now. This has been the only true few days of actual warmth I think we have had in almost 6 months.
ReplyDeleteI so agree with you, the warmth is amazing. I hope it continues. Weatherman is saying potential storm this week.
DeleteOh, how I wish chicken wire would keep the CHICKENS out of my garden. They just scratch it up! Glad you found a way to keep the feral kitties out of your garden. Let poor Bug out! How hard could it be to give that little furball a bath (or three)?
ReplyDeleteThe secret to keeping the wire down, tent stakes (I'm getting them this weekend).
DeleteI do let her out to play and do her business, it's still to chilly to give her a bath multiple times a day.
She's a ham, can you tell?
Bug is so cute! Great job on the beds. Wonder if chicken wire would keep the squirrels out too?
ReplyDeleteThe crumble sounds wonderful as well.
I'm not sure if it will, you could try and lay some out and use some cheap tent stakes to keep it down on the sides and ends.
DeleteI have another way to get rid of squirrels, if I mention it, I would get into trouble.
I bet it's the same way my 80+ year old MIL & FIL get rid of Armadildos :~) Then they put them in the back of the truck & drive a few miles to throw them off a nearby bridge (at midnight I might add). It's a wonder the police didn't catch them!
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