Garden fence is done.
It’s Monday and it is another sunny day. It is just above freezing so far (34 degrees) (@ 8AM); but it looks to be another spectacular day. Yesterday it was in the mid-50s all afternoon.
It took me two days; but I got the deer fencing up and finished around my new garden space yesterday, as well as all three bird bath drippers up and running. (pic 2)
Planting has started
I even planted a pot of purple potatoes – that pot inside the fence (pic 1). I plan on putting the vining plants (pumpkins and cantaloupes) in mounds along the back part of the garden, so that they grow out towards the woods. But planting them is a few weeks away as our last frost date is April 30th.
Only really cold weather crops need to be planted now. I need to plant the peas next, but I need to dig out the grass and amend the soil first. I’m thinking along the that left fence wall is where the peas will go.
I need to go through all my seed packages and figure out what goes in next after the peas are planted. The lettuces and other cold weather greens will go back into the flower boxes on top of my garden bench. The bench sits on my back patio near the cellar entrance. (Pic 3) This area also needs to be fenced in.
I over winter all my potted perennials on this patio. They all need to be cleaned out and placed in the summer locations.
Hügelkultur
The Hügelkultur garden bed is getting tall (pic 1) – no thanks to the turkeys – who kept scratching it flat every time I put stuff on it. It was so much fun watching the turkeys yesterday after I finished putting up the fence. They stood there staring at the fence wondering why they couldn’t get into their favorite scratching area. I will be adding a layer of wood mulch over that cardboard for a new pathway as well as wood much to that Hügelkultur garden bed. After the wood mulch is the soil and compost before I can plant in this hill.
I will clean out and add to the round perennial bed around the Ginkgo tree. The turkeys have already done damage to the Ginkgo tree – they stripped the new leaves – I hope it comes back.
Today’s chores
Today I plan on getting some more deer fencing installed around my wisteria pergola to keep the turkeys off my back patio. This is the second year for this netting here. It worked really well last year. April 1st is next Thursday, and I need to prepare and hang the oriole feeders. The Ruby Throated hummingbirds are on the move. According to the migration maps (hummingbirdcentral.com); the hummers haven’t left the deep south yet. The hummingbird feeders will go out around the 15h of April. I usually see my first hummer around the 25th of the month.
