My Garden Journal April 5, 2015 Easter Day

Here we start on the garden in 2015

Today I took care of my Hellebore.  It looked kind of sick when I transplanted it into the other raised garden last year.  We put it back where it was the year before and I trimmed off all the dead leaves and such.  It just did not like it's toes (roots) pinched.  The raised garden has a black plastic liner in it.  We had to do that because the year, many years ago now, that we just put the dirt in it the tree roots grew up into the planter.  It was like the Twilight Zone or something!  I kid you knot, the roots grew straight up and the tree took all the added nutrients that we fed the plants.

This is what my Hellebore looked like before and the way it looks this afternoon:

Before after we transplanted it back to it's first home.

After I trimmed all the dead leaves off of the Hellebore

It is a nice sunny day here and it is time to get the rototiller out and loosen up the soil in preparation for spring planting at the middle to end of the month.  We had lost the place that we were using as a compost area and were composting in the garden over the winter.  We needed to till it into the soil a lot better so that it would finish it's composting before we plant anything in there.  Doing it today will give it time to do so.  We will not be planting anything in them until at least my birthday on or after April 20th.  For now we are doing small things in and around the garden.  I do not know what I am going to be planting this year.  I want to do flowers this year instead of vegetables.  I might change my mind though and that is the beauty of having your own gardens.  We shall see.

This is what we have done today:

Raking out the bean vines.

Raking the vines and leave down the hill.

First time tilling with the Rototiller.  Nice!

These are almost ready to plant things in them.
The Lavender one needs at least another till, maybe 2 more.
That  is the one that we used most for the compost and some things still are not composted.

We had peas in this one last year.  I don't want to plant peas.

"Mary, Mary, quite contrary"

BY MOTHER GOOSE

Mary, Mary, quite contrary

How does your garden grow?

With silver bells and cockleshells

And pretty maids all in a row.

© Debra K. Allen a.k.a Lady Guinevere

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