March 31, 2009

2002
*tilled garden

1996
*pruned peach trees

March 28, 2009

2000
*set out Olympia rose (an anniversary gift). Used rose soil and cow manure.

March 27, 2009

1999
*in bloom: vinca minor & orange-centered narcissus

March 26, 2009

2000
newly blooming: yellow tulips, tiny yellow narcissus, grape hyacinth, & speckled violets

March 25, 2009

1999
*set out southernmost blueberry bush: Blue Ray from Lowe's - mixed peat moss with soil. [This is the blueberry bush in the southeast corner of the blueberry patch in 2008.]

1996
*snow flurries

March 23, 2009

2001
*planted radishes, lettuce, and mustard (2nd planting)

March 22, 2009

2001
*set out blueberry bushes
*set out dwarf Fuji apples & Brown Turkey fig

March 21, 2009

2009
*3/4" rain

2001
*set out blueberry bush

1999
*pruned pear & plum trees
*pruned #3 peach trees heavily
*marked limbs to be sawed off peach trees
*marked site to move vegetable garden to site behind house

March 20, 2009

2001
*planted potatoes: 2 1/2 lbs Yudon Gold and 2 lbs Red Pontiac
*planted 2 parsley plants (curled leaf)
*radishes sprouting (planted March 10)

1999
*pruned Polish Spirit clematis back to 12"
*pruned #2 peach tree and three apple trees

1995
*set out 'Polish Spirit' clematis and 'Serrata Pink' hydrangea [which blooms blue]

March 19, 2009

1996
snow flurries

March 12, 2009

2009
*snow flurries

March 10, 2009

2001
*dormant oil spray on pear, sweet cherry, apple, apricot, Starkling Delicious plum, and peach
*Ozark Premiere plum and Lucille plum leaving out
*tilled garden spot and added row on east side
*planted: Cherry ball radishes, Danvers carrots, sugar snap peas, Little Marvel peas, Detroit Red beets, Bloomsdale spinach, Florida Broadleaf mustard, buttercrunch lettuce, and prizehead lettuce
*set out: 5 Packman brocolli plants and 7 red-leaf lettuce plants

March 9, 2009

2000
newly in bloom: yellow daffodils with orange centers

March 4, 2009

2008
*school "snow day"