Well we have finally traded in our coats, gloves and hats. Now you find beat up garden clogs, straw hats, sun screen, shades and good gloves are the preferred outfit of the discerning farmer/gardener. My feet/hands or both are always dirty it seems!
Our days are filled with planting seeds, mowing, raking, mulching, etc.
The tinkling sound of my old jar lids hitting against their wire supports marking my garden rows sound like lots of wind chimes tinkling on the wind
The gardens are greening up fast and new life is everywhere. The incubators are full of chicken and turkey eggs. The raised beds full of strawberry and rhubarb blossoms. The rabbit pens full of babies.
The tinkling sound of my old jar lids hitting against their wire supports marking my garden rows sound like lots of wind chimes tinkling on the wind
The gardens are greening up fast and new life is everywhere. The incubators are full of chicken and turkey eggs. The raised beds full of strawberry and rhubarb blossoms. The rabbit pens full of babies.
The wheel barrow is permanently parked out by the flower beds and every time I walk by I try to pull at the least a hand full of weeds or so.
As I hang and take laundry off the lines I rake a little or pull weeds on my many trips from the porch to the clothes line. As the mother of 5 I learned long ago to multi task. Eventually it will all be done. It always is! But right now it seems we have a thousand things to get done and the clock is ticking.
Blessings from The Holler
The Canned Quilter
Waiting for the arrival of warm weather here in central England, haven't seen a lot of the sun and its a chilly wind blowing. A lot of trees still aren't out in full leaf yet, way behind normal. Be interesting to see how well the veg gardens produce this year.
ReplyDeleteHave you caught your pesky groundhog yet?
That rascal has yet to come back but we still set traps faithfully. Maybe he was just passing through but more likely he is waiting until everything is replanted! Sounds like England is having a late spring as well. Ours has ran about 6 weeks behind schedule and it looks as if we will skip spring completely and go right into summer like conditions.
Deletewe've been dodging storms here hopefully the end of all that is near-love your plant makers-what did you make the holders from? I bet it would sound like wind chimes. Lovely photos-Kathy
ReplyDeleteO Wise One just went to the hardware store and bought some heavy wire and bent it to hold them. They work great!!
DeleteYes, we do manage, don't we? Maybe not in the time we want but we do get it done. Enjoy.
ReplyDeleteLove that you share your life with us... I love love love the idea of using old canning lids for makers.. ingenious! I've got a bazillion of them hanging around & use some of them but not all, for sure. ;) Thanks for the great idea & have a great day!
ReplyDeleteSpring is always a busy time, but doesn't it feel good to be out in the fresh air, digging in the warm earth:)
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of using the canning jar lids as planter markers as well. The hubby found a ton of canning jars at a yard sale last weekend and the rings and lids were rusted. Thankfully the jars were perfect. Now I have a use for those rusted lids!
ReplyDeleteYour blog is so much fun to read! And so helpful to a rookie gardener like myself!
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