The ONLY “gardening” I’ve been able to do, aside from starting flats of seedlings, has been to pot up the big planters outside of the back door.
They were lovely; mixed leaf lettuces, alyssum, red pansies...they lasted TWO days until the chickens found them and that was the end of that!
So, the chickens are on “lock down” now and that’s the end of THAT!
I got four FREE bags of slightly leaking potting soil from work, so I’ll have little expense re-doing the planters again, but I’m going to wait until next week until the coming rain (three days worth they’re saying) passes. I also got four FREE bags of cocoa bean mulch (smells like chocolate!) and put that on the ‘Murphy Nyberg Memorial Flower Garden’ planted in honor of my late Lab, Murphy. It’s filled with yellow daffs and a Yellow Twig DOGwood. If she were still here, she’d be rolling around in it and digging up the bulbs planted in her honor, LOL!
This afternoon I plan on trimming bottom branches from my White Pine, which took a hit due to the amount of snow piled around it’s bottom this winter, and I think I’ll clean up the rock/herb garden, after I do a Grocery Run.
(My ONE day off each week is filled mainly with foraging for foodstuffs, LOL!)
Years ago, many years ago, the entire city of Dover would smell like chocolate because of the General Foods plant. Back in the 60's & 70's probably about half the town either worked there or knew someone who did and everyone had cocoa bean mulch. But that ended when they moved the Baker chocolate manufacturing to somewhere else.