27
Aug
My husband made me an arbor for my garden this summer, it turned out fantastic!
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While it was nice and even quaint to have a white Christmas, almost more snow than I’ve seen in my lifetime, I’m glad it’s over. I’m tired of the cold and the snow, tired of the long dark nights. The dark nights because they seem to last from the time I get up and head to work in the dark and the time I come home in the dark. I worked from home the other day and actually saw my yard in the daylight, the sun was even shining and I knew it was time for Spring to come, I’m welcoming it with open arms, it’s just needs to get here and quickly.
I have my seeds, I have my plans and I can’t wait to get to digging into the garden and enjoying the out of doors here in Oregon again. I have a long list of stuff to do, trimming away the old stuff and I want to expand my garden again this year. (aside: I do this all the time – my poor husband – he just can’t get a break, I’ll be having him tear up a patio area we don’t use and adding some soil and soil enhancers to make a better garden area for us.) and I have to say I am so excited about chicken manure, my husband hates it – but I find it does the best job.
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29
Dec
Well, I’m dreaming at least about having an heirloom garden this year. As I mentioned earlier (twitter at least), I did go buy several seed varieties at http://www.victoryseeds.com. But I’ve done that before and time or events always get away from me and before I know it, it’s too late into the season or the plants didn’t grow or whatever. So, as is good practice, articulating those goals outloud, or making public statements, make’s it more concrete of a goal and you are more likely to follow through. Public pressure has always been helpful for me 
(yes, even in politics). So I found a great tool on the web called Blist at www.blist.com and I created my heirloom garden list there, I am building my list, figuring out how best to track it and keep the list in front of me. It is here on Blist for the sharing: Garden. Blist will let me post pictures, add more columns and manage the list as I progress in my gardening dreams.
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27
Dec
Well it doesn’t take long for me to move onto the next thing. Tree is already put away, along with all the ornaments and the low flying holiday decorations. The larger stuff will be gone soon enough. I’m already thinking about 2009 and what goals I need to establish and how I set my plans into motion. Already looking at seed sites. I am particularly interested in heirloom seeds, a great site is http://smub.it/marygall/heirloom.seeds in Molalla Oregon, not very far from home, but I was very pleased with the seeds I got last year and I’ve ordered several great varieties for this year.
In particular, I’m looking forward to planting the “Cinderella Pumpkins” for this fall. I’ve already warned Tony about my plans for the entire yard, so he has fair warning.
I now need to get thinking about what needs to happen to the raised beds and other garden areas. I’m thinking plenty of Chicken Manure to get the soil heated up. My biggest plans need to be about getting rid of those pesky gophers, they are gonners this year!
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