Wish I were a weatherman(er, weatherwoman). At what other job can you be wrong 50% of the time and not get in trouble?? LOL!! -B

Aren't they something! When it's going to snow around here they always seem to add a few inches on just to get everyone hyped up and get them rushing to the market!

I've been taking advantage today of the break from winter. I cold snap hit too fast last year and I didn't even have a chance to get all of the leaves up. A jump start on gardening in March is a real treat!

Lucky you having garden to work in already! What isn't still covered in snow is a total mud-bog around here...don't step in it, or you'll sink outta sight! Can't wait for snow to melt, and ground to drain so I can get out there!

Same here mmqchdygg....same here.

Well, it wasn't terribly warm here in the Buckeye state today (averaged right around 40), but it was sunny and I got a good start on my gardens and beds today. Only a week ago we had 20 inches of snow on the ground in a record-breaking blizzard!

Today I raked leaves out of two flower beds, hacked away stalks from last season's perennials, picked up 8 trash bags of horse manure for the compost pile, and began lasagna-ing my very first vegetable garden! I started a single 4x4 raised bed with some newspaper, leaves, compost and garden soil (will add much more over the next couple weeks) and I'm going to start two more 4x4 beds soon if the weather cooperates....got to get those beds ready for all my WS goodies!

Amy

Yuck. Well...if it's any consolation, my beds have been under about 2" of water from the heavy storms we've had the last few days. My backyard is a virtual lake.

It may be in the 60-70's but I've not planted any cattails!! lol Where's the dirt??

I couldn't do much outside today, too cold and wet.
But Saturday I worked some more on cleaning out a city lot we are restoring.
It's a very long lot, with an old terraced garden and big ivy-covered trees next to a parking lot on one side and an historic district on the other.
It's in a small city called Martinsburg, WV.
My main thing was to throw away trash and sticks, little bits of glass, plastic, you name it, that have rained down from the parking lot.
Yucky, but when it's done, it's done!
A bamboo fence is going up to screen off the parking lot, and then we figure out how to keep the vines from eating the lot this year.
DH worked on cutting down the smaller trees and branches that were leaning into the existing antique wire fence. We'll try to salvage one good section of the antique wire and bring it to the interior of the garden. The rest we'll sheath in the bamboo fencing which should disappear into the background.
Dreamed all day of making a gravel patio area and basking in a garden on the side of the garden with the view down the hill.
The shady side with the fence we are working on is packed full of bulbs that have multiplied for decades. Last year I saw a few alliums and parrot fringed tulips, and luckily the shaping I did on the lilacs and other shrubs seems to have kept them in good shape this spring.

The weeds and vines, however, are already looking about to take over.

I met more of my neighbors who are restoring the other old houses behind us. One of them had just killed 10 baby snakes.