2002
*set out red bee balm & crested iris from Lowe's
*set out tall yellow iris, "augergine" iris, and purple/white irises & blue-eyed grass bought from the house at the SE corner of Sang & Wedington
*in bloom: cornflowers (blue, pale pink, bright pink & purple), annual poppies (pink & red, single & double), iris (pale purple & medium purple), small white wild daisies, peonies, & chives


2000
*newly in bloom: Mother's peony

1999
*planted 'Clemson' okra, 'Straight 8' cucumbers, Henderson bush butterbeans, & sunflower seed mix
*set out tall white ruffled, tall dark purple, common yellow & peach iris -- all bought from the house at the SE corner of Sang & Wedington

1998
*in bloom: golden iris

1997
*in bloom: golden iris


1994 *planted 8 hills canteloupe, 'Sparkler' radish, 'La. Green Velvet' okra, 'Blue Lake' bush beans, cucumbers, 'Ruby Queen' beets, early butterhead lettuce, & cabbage

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

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

2011
school "snow day" #3

2009
planted lettuce in cold frame: buttercrunch, bibb, & romaine

2009
*harvested lettuce for tacos

2008
*picked up 14 pounds pecans (236 pounds total)
*still have leaf lettuce in cold frame

2008
*forecast calls for freezing temperatures tonight; spent the day after church getting ready for freeze
*harvested remaining tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, raspberries
*built cold frame from hay bales, fence posts, and 4-mil plastic sheeting in Keeping Garden around mustard & lettuce; built small square clotch from pvc pipe & 4-mil plastic - placed over spinach
*harvested remaining Fuji apples: stored 65 in flats in spare bedroom - heat shut off to room; stored 23 in plastic bags in fruit crisper in frig; holding 3/4 of 5-gallon bucket in spare bedroom until I can process them, probably as applesauce
*gathered zinnia seed & globe amaranth seed
*Love cleaned chimney
***weather update: home thermometer shows overnight low of 35.4F; noted spotty frost on lawn & some exposed plants

2008
*set out White Cap peony in Cottage Garden (from Chotkowski's)
*set out Red Delicious Semi-Dwarf apple from Lowe's in line north of Fuji apple
*1st harvest of buttercrunch lettuce
* raspberry harvest dwindling, but beautiful berries

2008
*weeded & hoed part of overgrown section of temporary vegetable garden
*planted small section of Bloomsdale spinach, Buttercrunch lettuce, Imperator carrots & Tendergreen mustard
*mustard planted Sept 6 is up
*harvested cherry tomatoes & chocolate bell peppers
*continuing raspberry harvest: picked 1/2 cup from Heritage red bushes
*picked off 4 hornworms from tomatoes & peppers