March 2016 Garden At The Allen Home

Gardening At The Allen Home

Survey of Gardens In The Lower Yard

This year we start off with surveying our gardens. Everything has fallen into disrepair here this year.  We need to do lots of things, ...well not really lots but more time consuming. Everything around here is time consuming and it all requires that nature cooperates with us.  As you can see all the boards that surround our various garden plots in the lower yard need reset.  We cannot do this yet as there is more winter weather heading our way.  

The Vegetable Gardens

Last year we knew that a few of these would be needing some extra tender loving care.  We had already gotten the boards that need the most replacing and painted before winter hit.  Now we just had to cut them to the right size and paint them.  We cut them, but as yet it has been too cold and wet to paint.  The wind doesn't help either.  Nature just is not cooperating with us this year so far.  It is supposed to be a balmy 70 degrees in the next day or so, but it may bee too windy.  I did some painting last year when it was windy and I think that I got more paint in the woods than on my project.  So I will just wait it out.  I was hoping to try growing some colder weather vegetables this year, but that my not happen. 

Jonas, The Snow Storm

Jonas, The Winter Storm of 2016

Nature played a trick on us this year.  She sent in a freak snow storm and the weatherman named it Jonas. That storm dumped 42 inches of snow on us in a couple of days time.We couldn't get out our front door without trying to shove it open enough to get start shoveling. It was like a nightmare.  I have pictures on a deer coming to play with my dog Duke that very morning before the snow started coming down that evening. The weatherman only called for between 18 inches and 30 inches.  We got socked. It took 2 months before it all melted.  

Two Out Of One

Some work to be done.  The yellow raised garden is literally falling apart.  I mean that the boards are rotting enough that the nails have just about gone right through them.  It will not be too difficult in taking that raised garden apart.  We have no more use for those boards and found other boards to use and also bought two last year for another garden that we didn't make.  Boy do making gardens get addicting.  I need to stop that, but this one is a fixer upper.  With the boards that I marked and cut we will be able to make two new raised gardens out of the one. They will be smaller, but more manageable than the one long one.  That is going to take the most time and will be complicated.  We are waiting for the weather to cooperate so that I can paint them.

Spring Has Sprung

Due to the high volume of snow that we had and the longevity of it being here most of my flower bulbs were stunted.  I had many Irises planted in one garden that most of them aren't even peaking out of the ground.  So to end this I will leave off with a group of Daffodils that I took a picture of a few days ago.