Garden Update
I've been taking advantage of the nice weather to get caught up on some of the garden chores I neglected last fall. As of this week, most of the cleaning chores are done and the only things I have hanging over my head are pot washing and redoing my bamboo trellises for the masses of morning glories I want to grow. (I really have become obsessed with them...I've been drooling over all the gorgeous Japanese varieties that are nearly impossible to find in the US.)
I'm hoping this cold snap is the last of its kind. I'm dying to start all the seeds I've been accumulating. Well, it should be safe to take all the plants out of my cold frame soon, and I'm hoping to scrounge enough scrap wood from our shed to throw together a second smaller one for seed starting. On my list to start: all the lavender, sage, and rosemary I can grow, plus yarrow, forget-me-nots, dianthus, morning glories (Flying Saucers and Blue Star)and a bunch of annuals I'll sow directly in the ground. There were a lot of other herbs I wanted to grow, but they're hard to find around here and I've already spent as much on the garden as I can this spring. I'm hoping to be able to acquire a few things through seed trading and from cuttings.
Right now the only things blooming are Ice Follies daffodils. They seem to be enjoying having more space, but the rain is flattening a lot of them.
I've also been relearning cross stitch. I used to really enjoy it and it's a relatively cheap, portable hobby. I'm starting off with small things like monograms and working my way up to a small sampler. I also plan to start relearning regular embroidery; I might eventually try to make a few embroidered sachets for my dried herbs.
I'm hoping this cold snap is the last of its kind. I'm dying to start all the seeds I've been accumulating. Well, it should be safe to take all the plants out of my cold frame soon, and I'm hoping to scrounge enough scrap wood from our shed to throw together a second smaller one for seed starting. On my list to start: all the lavender, sage, and rosemary I can grow, plus yarrow, forget-me-nots, dianthus, morning glories (Flying Saucers and Blue Star)and a bunch of annuals I'll sow directly in the ground. There were a lot of other herbs I wanted to grow, but they're hard to find around here and I've already spent as much on the garden as I can this spring. I'm hoping to be able to acquire a few things through seed trading and from cuttings.
Right now the only things blooming are Ice Follies daffodils. They seem to be enjoying having more space, but the rain is flattening a lot of them.
I've also been relearning cross stitch. I used to really enjoy it and it's a relatively cheap, portable hobby. I'm starting off with small things like monograms and working my way up to a small sampler. I also plan to start relearning regular embroidery; I might eventually try to make a few embroidered sachets for my dried herbs.