Waking up to snow Friday May 22nd was not a happy moment. I had to run out to ensure I got the garbage but then I had to cover my tomatoes with some sort of covering. I improvised with clear plastic garbage bags that you use for leaves in the fall. Worked ok as all my tomatoes looked like they survived.
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Uh-oh!!!
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With the barometric changes from low pressure systems to high - well, I spent most of the weekend in bed nursing a migraine. By the time I got outside on Sunday, I saw a field of yellow in my front yard. It's probably the same behind my garage which I will need to clean tomorrow. I pick off all the dandelion blooms and buds so they can't spread anywhere or reseed themselves on my lawn. I can't spray the lawn until it has been dry enough for at least a few days as I can't use full strength broadleaf chemical spray as the smell is too strong. Dut during the picking of the dandelions on Sunday, I found a robin's egg. I'm surprised it survived the fall from the tree above which is at least 2.5 storeys. But it's been out of the nest so long that it's likely dead.
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Robin egg in the grass
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My flowers are blooming better than other years. Here are a few at blooms... with all the dandelions and so much gardening all at once I hadn't had the chance to weed the flowerbed yet....
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Pulmonaria 'Sissinghurst white' - aka lungwort
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Auricula Old Yellow Dusty Miller - aka primula
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Heartleaf Bergenia - aka elephant ears
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The one lovely thing was today some of my garden is sprouting. I was able to see that the Kohl rabi, raddishes and lettuce are sprouting I didn't expect it quite this soon. I was more concerned with all the rain things would take much longer with teh soil being water logged. I've turned my auto-watering device off due to the soil being so wet. It looks like it might rain tomorrow......
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