For ages we've been trying to get the backyard landscaped ( Read more... )

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The snow in this picture is about three and a half feet deep. The rabbits have made a highway running directly across my vegetable garden.

I have seriously thought about putting wee land mines just under the snow here, but the cleanup in the spring might be a bit much.


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...time for gardeners everywhere to start browsing their seed catalogs and try to decide what to grow this year.

I am considering growing artichokes. This may be a horrible mistake. We'll see!


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Ok, I'm going to try and recreate the entry that LJ ate the other day. :P

First, the garden. ( About the garden... )

We've had a really miserable spring so far. I know that Winnipeg is in a climate with a shorter growing season, but this year's been ridiculous. We've had snow and cold and temperatures dropping below freezing up until a week ago. (It's still getting very cold at night ( Read more... )

With our very late spring and all the school hubbub, I haven't thought much about the garden yet. My Vesey's catalog never showed up (waa!) and I just haven't had much time to think about it. An email from dronon got my urge ticking again, though ( Read more... )

We had some things that we wanted to get done this weekend. We neglected a bunch of them because we took advantage of the beautiful day yesterday to clean up the yard and garden. We picked the very last of the zucchini, tomatoes and beans from the dying plants. (We got a large handful of baby zucchini (like, 3-4 in long), which I think I'm just ( Read more... )

I am *so* stressed out right now.

First of all: kfops, I'm sorry... I don't think I'm going to get around to dividing the irises this fall. Time and weather have conspired against me; this weekend was to be the absolutely latest that I'd be able to do this, and it's supposed to rain all weekend. If I dig up anything after it's rained, the gumbo that ( Read more... )