DEAR GARDENERS: GARDEN TASKS IN APRIL HAS ITS WORK IN STORE! (896 hits)
APRIL 2012
Dear Gardeners:
It's been a quick month since my last letter. You know my son did buy that weed-trimmer just as he said he would. He's beginning to use it like a pro! However, in April many of you are now outside planting for May flowers to bloom. If you did your planting bulbs last Fall they should be up and on their way to make you some lovely May yards of color. But let's face it..garden tasks are tedious; and with grass and weeds at your hands all of them will be keeping you busy killing of warding off the invaders of your floral and fruit of enjoyment.
Tasks of Weeding:
Yes... killing weeds in your floral or veggie gardens will require you to be busy keeping those weeds away. There's the old fashioned sure way of doing it by hand. It's a rough task, "keeps in you good shape though." Meanwhile, there are many kinds of garden tools you can buy that help pull up weeds around your plants or vegetables garden. Go to your local garden store and see what options are available. There are also pesticides which keeps away unwanted grass, pests and weeds. How often you de-weed your plot is up to you, but I must suggest you keep a weekly watch on weeds, they'll easily overtake your plendeur.
Watering:
Warm weather is setting in too, so you'll want to have a get a good watering system going for your thirsty plants. You can if you're able install sprinklers which can make waterings much easier. If you enjoy the water hose, make sure there's a sprinkler attachment to it. This helps eliminates straight hardwater pouring over them. It most resembles natural rains. For those who have outdoor potted plants there are watering cans you can purchase to give the same effect as soft rains. They range within different sizes and prices so you can decide which ones are best for you.
Loving to Garden:
As a advocate of gardens and gardening, I want to do much more that I have. Planting and seeing a floral gardens simply causes a natural love inside me. I look to expand into doing much more of which I'm writing about. Presently, I have a potting garden of plants and florals. My time doesn't really allow me to get my garden plot in the yard going and requires quite a commitment of time. Oftentimes, it is why many people don't garden at all. But, it is a love for it deep within those soil lovers who continue to nuture passions of growing things when tired, or not--they make beautiful enrichments in loving growing earth's reapers of beauty.
Tasks are in the plenty, but the beauty of plenty is quite a reward. I think most gardeners will agree. I agree. . It's been great writing to you; and do keep your garden tasks as organized as possible. The work will be in store for your total enjoyment. I'll write soon.
Hi IR!...I want YOU to be careful and safe doing your gardening and caretaking of your growing things. Aren't tulips lovely I liked to see them blooming all summer. May is about to come around and I'm going to the garden shop to buy some summer long blooming things. I love petunias in pots. Poppys show graceful beauty; I don't get to see many of those in my city. Look! you use that sun screen...and that's an order young lady! [Smiles :>)]
Hi girl, all I can say is it has stopped raining, water is going down on the lawns and the ditches the city insist on digging with no place for the water in teh ditches to drain, but at any rate water as well as gas prices going down each day also. $3.93.
As I use strawberryplants as my ditch grown covers (about 200feet of it and there are a few cactus gardens on my ditch and don't look forwards to weeding either.lol)they are all green with white floweres, no red yet on my famous berrys "that will be ready tomorrow."..I will not even bring up to the young ones about 'a watched pot never boils' I will just enjoy their exictment and look forward to them getting their well deserved berry rewards that will be penty all summer as they are everbaring and live up to their name.
My tulips did me proud this year. I have still not had any success in growong california poppys, but I never say never. lol!!! the grapes are getting leaves each day and the wasp are going into action.
NOw my lecture in chemo today was, I have yet to start using sun screen and gardening with gloves on at all times.Shall start tomorrow. (smile)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
You souns like my daughter when she was so shockedk I liv here in Ca with all of this sun shine and did not wear sunscreen aotomatically. I had never looked at it that way...
not to poppy. I will be planting dome until they come up one year. lol!!! I love Petunas and have lots of them. they bloom so long. my merigiods are the favorites of slugs and snailslsao I do almost nightly runs tokeep them in check.
Well, it seem later today the rain will rerurn in the after noon. so I mut say goodnight and get a few hours sleep...I had chemo aand radation today came homw went to sleep and whoke up to 11:3; after falling to sleep a 6pm. New rules for me not gardening after 10am and before 4am as this is when the bad SUN RAYS ARE PUT. RIGHT NOW I AM ONLY WEEDING....
LOV YA ALL...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA