RE: Marching towards spring

Hmmm...and, I thought chickens would eat ticks.

Bonnie Zone 7/7 ETN
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> From: Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 3/20/2007 12:04:44 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] Marching towards spring
>
> We are back to "normal" spring weather - if there is normal any more -
> it's cool, windy, and cloudy. I doubt we'll get rain but my fingers are
> crossed, anything would help.
> I did more pruning back the dead stuff in the dry garden on Saturday.
> Sheesh there's a lot of that. I have seen a very few living parts on the
> bigger salvias, I think those are all salvia clevelandii, mostly near
> the bottom of the plant and in one case on the end of a branch that had
> been buried by a gopher mound. I am not sure if they will come back from
> the roots or not, so I left them about a foot tall and I'll call
> Theodore Payne nursery today for advice. I didn't have time to do all of
> them so just in case the nursery screams at me "Don't touch them!" I'll
> still have half left alone. However what I cut off was really dead,
> crunchy brittle dead, and I don't think there are plant zombies; so I'm
> pretty sure pruning was okay.
> Husband rototilled the entire veggie garden. In one bed where I had left
> the leaky hose attached it must have been getting water, nice moist
> dirt. We pulled at least a hundred june bug larvae out of there. EEUUWW
> although the chickens were happy about it. No kidding there were quarts
> of them, I don't remember seeing that many June bugs around last year.
> Makes me wonder what's in all the other beds, maybe they are lurking
> farther down in the soil. And I let the chickens out all winter, they
> are supposed to take care of that sort of thing, what's wrong with them?
> Anyway I sowed the green beans; I meant to get more stuff in but I ran
> out of time. We did fill up the dumpster with debris though. This is
> becoming our standard for a successful weekend - if we fill up the
> dumpster we know we've worked enough. :-)
> No gardening on Sunday, we took the horses out. Nice ride, too bad about
> the dry winter, the hills would have been covered by wildflowers in a
> wetter year. Oh well. And despite my sister telling us "Oh I never see
> ticks around this area" there were plenty of them. I must say this whole
> horse thing has me learning about some stuff that I never really wanted
> to know, like ticks. But we do have fun. It was great weather and I only
> wish I'd thought to put sunscreen on my arms and not just my face.
> Next weekend more garden maintenance. I know we have at least two broken
> sprinklers, and then there's more pruning.
>
> Cyndi
>
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