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It’s too cold out!

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Ok now I’ve really gone and done it. There is no way I’ll get the garden to bed. We had a mini snow storm late this morning and the temp as I write this is -10 Celsius! BRRRR we are going into a real cold spell here.

Has it been getting cooler and cooler in your area? And did you manage to get your garden to bed or are you leaving it open to the elements as it seems that I’m going to be doing this year?

I’m inside and my house is warm but I’m freezing just thinking about the cold weather that’s coming. Hurry up and come back summer!






It’s too cold!

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I’m not looking forward to winter this year! Oh no, I don’t like being cold. Hmm maybe I should move to Arizona? I found Scottsdale real estate on the internet. They specialize in fine properties. You should see some of the homes they have listed. Lovely.

It’s not likely that I’d ever be able to afford one of the more luxurious homes that they offer but I can dream can’t I? LOL

2006 garden winter protection

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I haven’t really begun to work on this site. I had planned to write in it daily and I do still plan to do that, but I’ve been busy with securing the domain name that this site will be placed under and I’m still looking for a good theme that I can convert into a wonderful garden layout.

It’s been cool this week so I haven’t been doing much with the garden. After last weeks blast of heat, then rain and now the slightly cool weather the garden has really taken off.

Actually since we had a very mild winter with very little damage to the plants I’d say that the garden is about a month ahead of itself. Many of the roses are already 6 or 7 feet tall. I’m used to having to prune many of the winter damaged branches down to one or two foot stubs but I didn’t have to do that this year.

Ironically, this past winter we winter protected better than we ever had before. We gathered leaves from our neighbors as we usually do but this year we must have gathered twice as many as we normally do – perhaps 50 bags of leaves! The garden beds had an approximately 3 foot cover of leaves on them. On top of that we had mounded soil around the base of the roses as usual, and we put up a long burlap fence that surrounds the garden beds on either side. Overkill even in a very cold winter.

When we uncovered everything in the spring the strawberry plants were already green, the rose branches were tall, green and only a few had slight damage. The rest of the plants were doing well too. It was amazing!

Well I must go and see if I can muster up some energy to get into the garden and do some work or else keep working on finding a nice theme for this site.

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