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Location: Shoveling snow from my driveway into your driveway.
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Oh, I've planted some Dutch Iris bulbs this week as I love Iris blooming in my yard. I also planted some young Blackeye Susan plants so that I'll have big, bushy plants next spring all around my house.
Oh, just a note on your blueberry bushes. I have a friend here in Ohio that has about 2 acres of his yard devoted to blueberry bushes. He used to add about 10 bushes a year until he can't add any more to his lot. He's been doing that for 20 years now. He does not spray them at all. The berries are out of this world delicious!! He also takes special netting and nets his plants so the birds don't eat all his fruit. He must do this as the birds know where all the blueberries are and have cleaned his trees of all the fruit until he started netting them. He sometimes sells his blueberries at the office where he works and can't pick enough to keep up with the demand as his coworkers clean him out. His wife does freeze quite a lot of berries for eating in the winter.
I'm getting a snuggle so me and the man can keep warm because I live in the snowiest city in the U.S.
I live in Syracuse New York.
Get the snowfall totals on this link,its funny
OK, so the blueberries are planted and the Blackberries are planted. The strawberries have been replanted with a couple new ones (for variety) and I'm trying Romaine lettuce, just a few to start.
I'm also in the process of trying to clean up for the up and coming winter. I took some pictures so there will be a 'before' shot, but I don't have the energy to post them tonight, maybe Tuesday.
Our weather has dropped 20 degrees since yeaterday and I love it! Sunday it was 100 and today about 80. Right now only 77! All the windows are open and the fans are bringing in glorious fresh air.
What Do you just have buckets every where
I'm so sorry about the demise, that soil looked very sad
I think I'm going to attach a couple pictures that you can delete after you see them, since they really have nothing to do with UDTs, but I wanted to share.
Some of my fish, which are a pain in my butt.
The shed when DH was out of town. When he came back, he did the roof.
My crazy bees, I have bee proof feeders now and the humminbirds think that all I live for is to give them more nector. The birds and I need to sit down and have a talk.
I am standing where most of the tomatoes are planted and where my hammock is. Haven't had much time for the hammock this year..YET
My response will naturally depend on my local climate, and the conditions I am used to.
For some of our fellow gardeners/members this can be a daunting task as
they may have recently moved to different Hardiness Zones (HZ).
As one can see by the image, courtesy of Arborday.org.
Not only does location have a bearing on what you can do, and when, but
the natural ecology of Earth does as well. wikipedia
However, because the USDA zones look at average minimum temperatures, they often miss summer temperatures, which are key. Regions with the same average minimum temperature might have summer temperatures which vary, so plants which thrive in, say, Michigan, won't grow in England. Furthermore, USDA zones don't consider other important issues like annual rainfall, wind, soil conditions, and so forth, making them more of a rough guide than a hard and fast set of rules.
You also have to realize that you can not put blind faith in these maps.
There are at least four other variables you can observe to help in your plants growth. Alternative U.S. Hardiness Zone Maps
My conundrum revolves 'round the fact that I have recently retired (last Nov.), and can devote my full energies to re-establishing a full time garden.
I have to be careful though, that I don't go off in a direction that won't yield good results, analogous to "slow and steady wins the race", but I imagine that we all face that at some/certain points in our lives.
So my present course is to maintain the "status quo", and prepare next years garden accordingly, and this involves steps to take in a logical manner.
Sunday it was 100 and today about 80. Right now only 77! All the windows are open and the fans are bringing in glorious fresh air.
Do you just have buckets every where
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