Friday, January 27, 2012

SPRING CLEANING - What's on your list?

Ah, spring. The weather gets warmer, the days grow longer, and birds happily build nests for their new families. Love is in the air as the sun-kissed colors of newly sprouted daffodils and tulips chase the winter blues away.

SPRING CLEANING - What's on your list?
*sighh* what a nice description you wrote! it's soo true about spring! i loooveee ittt!
Reply:Well we moved into a new place with a small back yard so I will be cleaning the yard and trying to figure out how in the heck I am going to plant my garden in such a small place. I am thinking of using large planters and I am also thinking about having some plants climb up the fence on strings.
Reply:Oh, Lord--the list takes up pages. I need to create a shade garden in the front of the house, repaint the door and shutters, clean the gutters and siding, plant more in the back yard, cut out some bushes, cut back other ones, and if i still can even crawl, I'd like to build a patio out back. I'm 44, and my husband doesn't do much of the flower gardening, though, so the list of what actually gets done will probably be much shorter.
Reply:Composted horse manure - it smells like spring! I order a "load" every fall from a local contractor who stores it out back to age before selling it. It has the stable straw in with it and makes a great summer mulch and organic fertilizer. Everything in the yard loves it - from the daffodils right through the mums - everything gets "compost tea" with each rain storm or watering and it makes them all more disease and pest resistant. I do little else to my beds of perennials - a little "do-do" will do 'em. After two years it barely smells, but you do need to be careful reaching into the pile after it has been in the driveway a few days while we spread it on the beds - because it still gets prettty hot when it is piled up!

I love the smell of damp earth in the spring when it has thawed and warmed and it gives off that earth odor, too.

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