Re: Spring cleaning nearly done

You GO Melody - can't wait to see you at Jesse's
on Memerial Day!!

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Melody" <mhobertm@excite.com>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Tue, 29 Apr 2003 07:28:12 -0400 (EDT)

>Well, it is now Tuesday and my aching legs are telling me that the 2 day
>marathon session we did in the garden over the weekend has taken its
>toll...but to see the beauty of my garden every time I look around makes
>every second of pain worth it!!!!!!!! Everything is up and growing well,
>the tulips, hyacinths, and daffodils are blooming prettily, as are my
>bleeding hearts. Bought 50 bags of mulch on Sunday...now that all the
>beds have been weeded and neatened up, that is the task ahead of
>me...Also moved things around that weren't growing where I wanted them,
>and planted many new plants acquired at a plant sale on Saturday,
>including 27 new strawberry plants. Each of my children bought a bunch
>of stuff and I helped them to start their own little gardens within my
>garden...they are each responsible for their own little areas
>now--something they all wanted to do. So, no housework got done, but I
>can live with that...the gardens look great and I am happy with my
>little piece
>
>of heaven on earth. And BTW, Kitty, thought you'd be interested to know
>that every single one of the plants that I overwintered under a deep bed
>of leaf mulch in a sheltered corner of my yard...all of them survived
>and are happily growing again now. I think that may be thanks most of
>all to the extremely mild winter we had here and a great deal of luck!
>Hope all of you are enjoying springtime out there where ever you have
>the pleasure to be gardening, too! :-)
>
>
>
>Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
>
>"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
>--Albert Einstein
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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