Smell of Dirt......Starting some organic spinach

This is the time of Year that one who lives in a white land of snow
Wants to see dirt!!!!

DIRT......................
ahhhhhh

Smell dirt feel dirt........dig in the dirt...............give me dirt... :)

ok I know it is early but to have a tomato..........a real red homegrown tomato about now would be amazing.

You do know that is one of Two things you can not buy ...right???

(love and home grown tomatoes.... )

Well Bakerboy it thawing out my block of frozen dirt as we speak...I hauled it out of the greenhouse and he put it by the wood fire in his shop yesterday so today it may be workable.

 he is an amazing husband.  A true blessing from God...(thank you Jesus) how he puts up with me sometimes I just wonder....

But thankfully he does.....

 He built me a small green house a few years ago on the front of our house....well it is kinda like a sunroom...but it works for plants.

This year it is going to be amazing....last year it was a house for hornets....
OK now for
Todays Mission:
Start my spinach and put it in bay window
Start up my  5 gal or maybe 3 gal aquarium...

love the sound of the water falling and it surly must put some humidity in our dry house.  Maybe I will get a fish...

I soak my seeds in warm water before planting

===========================================================3 Gifts given

Gift of soil

seeds

smell.....love the smell of dirt...  

Seeds at Menards for 1.00

Today's Bargain:                 20 packs of seeds for a dollar.......  :)

OK every year I buy these seeds...

Never have I seen them 20 packs for a dollar.

Now how could one go wrong.......when LJ just bought a tomato small

for 3.29 cents.....???????  

do they grow?  Yes

If I get one tomato these will pay for themselves.

wow what a deal......

Am I a seed fanatic?  well maybe...but seeds do last

and the amazing thing is these are heirlooms.

Get your seeds today and watch for them.

It is  a good thing as Martha would say ...  :)

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Thankful today

For seeds

for Menards

for a car to get to town...

God is good all the time

All the time God is good.  

God is so good.......... Amazing grace

After  a trip to beautiful town yesterday we saw the good news that gas came down a bit to 4.03.9   Good News...just    have to think and remember "God is the blessed controller of all things"....boy that is a hard one for me sometimes. Well maybe more than sometimes, sometimes..... :)

When I was younger about 35 years ago I had that plaque from a seminar that I gave to  my mon.  Not sure what happened to it but need it on my wall again.  

 "God is the blessed controller of all things"..

It is a beautiful fall like day outside. Well maybe a little warmer than fall.  

But on the  inside of our house it is cold feels like winter to me like the heat needs to be on.  But outside in the sun it is very warm. I call this crazy weather cause no matter how you guess what to wear you are wrong.  The one thing about the UP you all need to know if you come up here sometime......... GO NO Where Without A SWEATER OR SWEATSHIRT....even if it is 90 outside.  The weather can turn on a dime......and usually does. 

I never knew humming birds loved holly hocks so much.  We have had so many of them humming birds one day I counted about 11..  More than any year ever. Even more than when we had the  humming bird feeder. 

Took a picture of holly hocks but did not get any hummers in it.  :(  
The flowers will follow this post.  My girlfriend tells me I have an eccentric garden  mmmmmmmmmmmm just looked that up it may not be good...   irregular; 

erratic;peculiar; odd well 

mm I guess that does describe my garden.  Not that I planned  it to be that way.  It just grows and we mostly let it do what it wants to do..  I cannot bear to throw a flower out.  So not good at all at little rows little circles or big ones as far as that goes. 
Ok here are some pictures.


But first :  Gluten Free Pizza tonight.  Outstanding.  


Have a blessed weekend.  
God is good ...........all the time
All the time God is good.  

Today in the very wet garden

                    This year I put rose fertilizer on Roses and it is beautiful and loaded with flowers.........this is a very old rose.  DIL told me it was three sisters or something like that......started this from one little stem from the back yard....

                              Lupines love the rain....

                                              She love to get in the pictures and pose...

                                    Raised beds are doing good but need a spark of color..something to make it snap out or some kind of spark..mmmmmmm

Hops are growing up the trellis pretty darn good.

Well they are saying rain for tomorrow..
But Sat is supposed to be beautiful.....
We are going camping and to a garden show.
fun fun fun....but I am sure it will be very buggy after
all this rain..

Have a good weekend....and remember

God is good ................................all the time....

Today's garden June 17th

My very first micro tomato....it is little but it is green and growing...

Raised Beds week 3

Sprayed Vinegar on Weeds yesterday it worked...

Yesterday we mixed up a mix of vinegar and Blue Dawn...  sprayed weeds between cracks of side walk.  It really did work.

Today A Garden for the  House sprayed his yesterday and I found out you can leave out the blue dawn.  Someone told me Dawn made it stick on the weeds.  But if you go to his site and look at his picture you can see that plain vinegar worked great.

A real work of drift wood art and Rainbow garden

Click on it to make it bigger...

We went for a ride and passed this house...we turned around and went back.
Wow this is amazing art work...  This is drift wood put together piece by piece.  It is very very cool.

Flowers for corner.......there are two flats of flowers

                            This one plant has millions of baby's and they fall off  the edge and into the dirt.  DIL just gave it to me..

ok this is a little strange.  click on photo there is a white circle
in the photo...what is it?  Lens on camera closes and white spot not there for next photo's...
mmmmmmm
this is after we were done planting

 blue salvia, red cosmos, pink begonia's white alyssum, purple petunia's

What a perfect Yooper day....

76 and a beautiful day.......
Planted for about two hours at the Rainbow garden.  It was so dry. LJ was a great help.  We carried in many many gallons of water.

It is so far away.
well not that far.....15 miles

.but think we are going to drive in every day for a while till the plants get going...

Kevin's idea was so helpful.  We had bought to many flowers to take them all out but added his ideas and hope and pray they blend in together.  We could not find the purple Gomphrena or Purple Gnome..Hope I spelled that right. So we bought some more purple petunia's. I love the purple and pink...

We took out all the yellow and golds and moved them to one end and  are hoping it looks a little like a pot of gold.  Now just to grow and fill out... Here is the finished product and I have no idea of what the white spot is...



Well good night this sleepy lady is feeling some muscle issues..

Sauna is a calling............................................




God is good............................all the time

Love that red

My double Begonia.
love love love that red.

A beautiful day in the UP today.  76 right now.
Going to plant some more plants in Munising at Rainbow garden.
Kevin the man that has A Garden for the House. Sent me some wonderful plans.  It was so nice of him. Will post another picture when we get it planted.

What Blooming in the June garden?

June 13th

Guess where I am going?????/

Rainbow garden

The corner... it really looks better than this picture.
But it has a long way to go to be spectacular.
any suggestion out there?

One week new raised Beds

                   one week old. It is nothing spectacular but it is still a newborn baby.  :)
Going to work on Paul's rainbow garden today in Munising. Will post pictures tonight.
It is not spectacular yet either... ....:( But it is coming along.

Ok this is my new Cat's Meow..... Walkers low
This is from a great site Stargazer Perennials
http://www.stargazerperennials.com/Walkers_Low_Catmint.html

Background of Walker's Low Catmint:
Introduced in 1988 in Europe, Walker’s Low Catmint has become more popular with each passing year. Nepeta 'Walker's Low' is a member of the mint family, Lamiaceae. Members of the mint family are easily recognizable by their square stems, opposite leaves and often aromatic properties. Walkers Low Catmint is a selection from the Faassenii Group of Nepeta. Walker’s Low is named for a garden in England where it was selected and is not related to its growth habit which is actually up to 36" high. 

Appearance:
Walker's Low Catmint is a soft mounding perennial with attractive silver-green foliage. Prolific, small violet-blue flowers on arching stems bloom from early spring until frost. At Stargazer Perennial's farm we have seen Walker's Low bloom in November when snow was on the ground! To tidy this hardy perennial up mid-summer, trim back by half with simple garden shears. After shearing Walkers Low Catmint will be up and blooming again in 2-3 weeks.


I REALLY REALLY REALLY LIKE THE PART THAT IS COULD BLOOM IN DA SNOW.....sometimes it snow's in Oct here...


I may have planted it to low in the ground and might have to raise it up some....  


Tried my new tool my amazing garden guys uses.  Could not find one with long handle.  Tried to edge the tiny bed.  mmmmm think this could take some practice. 

Ok this is a picture of the neglected Phlox that was buried and boy I mean buried between the picture below.  Of a Cedar and a beautiful Tamarack tree...
(who were babies when we planted them)  They are much pretty than the pictures.  Our thought was to give us a little privacy cause our house is so near a major highway......

T
They have become buddies
See they are holding hands.
Way way to close together..  But to big to dig out for us old geezer's.
so hear is wishing you a Great Sabbath...
and May God Bless....


God is good ............................all the time....

Crazy crazy weather

Wowzer
The weather is crazy.....Yesterday almost to hot to garden. (almost 100).

Today Heavy sweatshirts and still chilly with the cold wind.(48).But on the Bright side.  Drum roll please.............................

Number One bright side............ ready

1.     NO BUGS..........(48 F)

But that is normal for the UP....  It dropped 30 degrees in less than 10 min.


 2 bright side:


 The plants LOVE the cooler weather. (Me too)


Weeded another Bed today...Was it ever bad.  :(

Moved flocks which were buried between two pines.  Tamerack and Cedar.
When I plant trees I forget they grow...   sigh......

Last year Tamerack looked like it had the flu...

This year she is a beauty....She must have been in her rebelious year..

Bought some organic Preen and going to try that this year.  My girlfriend just told me about taking White Vinegar and Blue Dawn dish soap for weeds..She said her's were dead in one day...  Will give a report going to try it today.

Friends popped in and invited us to dinner.

So NUMBER 3:   DO not have to cook dinner........Yipppppeeeeeeee..

We are off to the big city in morning to see the Ticker Doctor.....  LJ needs to check in  for a quick check.  He is doing great and all his tests came back Peachy....:)  

Keep on the sunny side........always on the sunny side....keep on the sunny side of life.......    Oh dear a tune so early in da morning.............gotta go get some Kava

But always remember

God is good...........................................all the Time...

What blooming in the front yard today....not much..

The lilac that was attacked by frozen snow opening day about 5 years ago

finally makes a come back....

A gift from my neighbor......  thanks Sue

A few more days and salad for dinner....we know this lettuce has no e coli...

Side of house the lilac's are beautiful.....

Poor little skinny snowball...needs some weight.
Hey I could give it some....
90's and so hot yesterday which was wonderful....back to sweatshirt weather today.   They are saying our high today will be 52...sounds like sweatshirt weather all day.......  

LJ made me raised beds in front yard

LJ made me two raised beds...about a week ago.. here they are empty

Our front yard we think used to be a gravel drive we saw pictures of the circle drive not to long ago and now we
know what we always thought is true. When we moved there was nothing in the front yard but the forsycia bush.

June 8th garden: da da.....My new bird feeder....

Lj made me the most amazing Lowe's project.  A bird feeder the birds must love

cause I got my third Cardinal in 37 years this morning

View of the front porch

That's hops growing up the trellis

Iris came out today.........  I love them....

OK....One week in raised beds.......

mmmmmm was going to be veg. but flowers one in the first one

flowers and vegies in the second one.  A da cooks herbs.....basil, parsley, oregano.

Greenhouse plans..Snow on the garden a beautiful sunny day

We received about six inches the last few days of snow.  The birds are not liking it. They are looking for the bird coats.  We must have had hundreds of them out here yesterday.

We are working on greenhouse.  It is going to be so nice. a great place to start my plants.

 Thinking about doing the kitchen floor.  Than we will be all set.  Should make the house warmer.

busy week ahead...
Praying for all the familys affected by the over 100 tornado's this last weekend. Sounds like another rough week for those in the midwest.

LJ worked on greenhouse.

2011 Wow did we get the snow beautiful great big silver dollar flakes.  What a winter wonderland and we need the water.   It is going to be so nice.  Our new sauna is wonderful we should have put one in years ago.  LJ loves it and so do I.  Sleep so much better.  Last night at church we passed out Palms for Palm Sunday.  What a great God we have.  It was a great service.

Garden News:  Plants all looking ok....2 foot tulip out in the house it is purple and beautiful...