Nothing like a pending visit from a garden club to move
the garden clean-up to the top of the priority list!
Yesterday there was a 60% chance of rain so I headed to
the garden before breakfast, thinking I could get a few chores done and eat
when the rain started. By noon, I was famished, so I took a break and ate
breakfast. No rain yet, so I headed back to the garden. By 4:30, I was one
tired gardener! (Still no rain.) All though it is far from the pristine state
of a year ago when it was spruced up for Artin the Garden, it does look more
like a working garden and less like a neglected garden.
Winter was really hard on the potager. It took some plants, like my rosemary tree and lavender hedge. I thought the fig trees had bit the dust also,
but on further inspection there is nice new growth on the bottoms of the trees
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The strawberry tower didn’t perform as well and needs
some repairs and refurbishing with compost.
But there is a nice crop near the previous strawberry bed.
The new double rain barrels are not holding water (probably
because I forgot to open the spigot and drain the barrel, which caused the zero
temperatures to do some kind of freeze and expansion thing. (I don’t think
Handy Randy is very happy with me about this,)
With a few more tweaks, I will welcome the garden club to tour my garden on Tuesday.
Peggy Martin came out to welcome the Happy Hendron Homemakers
Club to the potager on May 20. As always she made quite a statement! And of
course there is the expected question; “What kind of fertilizer do you use?”
The answer is none. If I don’t forget, I put compost around the base in the
fall but that is one only care I give her. That is except for extreme pruning
several times a year. 
