I can't believe how fast weeds grow! It's been about a week or so since I last weeded my flower beds. I had been checking them out almost daily for a while and finding very little, so I slacked off. Then I forgot about it for a while. Well, today when I was checking out the beds I couldn't believe all the weeds, and how big they were! I'm going to have to try to keep on top of that a bit more.
One thing I've found with my new love of gardening is that there are a lot of life lessons to be learned from the garden. I wrote about one of the life lessons I learned last year. I think I'll put a link in the links section to the web page I made about that lesson. Today I learned another one. I just might have to write something up about that soon.
I've noticed the gardens around town are all starting to fill out a bit. One of these days I'm going to get brave enough to go and ask the owners about the plants they are growing. It looks so nice. I'm assuming what I see growing are either perenials or bulbs. I need to learn more about them so that I know what to do for my flower beds. My beds look so sparse now with the crocuses and tulips having faded away and nothing else filling in the spaces.
The flower seeds I planted inside still aren't showing much sign of growth. The sunflowers are growing quite tall but the only other ones showing any sign of growth are the wildflowers and the petunias. I'm not sure if the problem is bad seed or that they weren't planted quite right. My daughter actually did the planting. She wanted to help and I couldn't say no. I want to encourge her as much as I can. I didn't think there was any way you could go wrong in the planting. Now I'm not so sure. I really don't think that's the problem though. I'm thinking it's more that the seeds weren't great. They were old ones that I had around since last year.
The geranium cuttings didn't make it. I really didn't think they would. I wish I had taken better care of the plants through the winter. They were really beautiful and I was looking forward to having them to put in the garden. Oh well, hopefully I've learned a lesson.
The vegetable seeds are coming really well. I had to thin them out today. I hate doing that. I feel like a murderer killing those little plant lives. I was doing some reading about vegetable planting today and it seems that some of the plants I have could be put outside now. Now all I have to do is talk my husband into letting me, and helping me, prepare a place in the backyard to put them. Our backyard is really not that big but I don't have a lot of vegetable seeds growing so it won't take up that much space.
If any of you readers have any knowledge of any of these things I sure could use all the help I can get.
Oh, by the way! My newest article was published in our local newspaper today so I just posted it up on the blog for the newspaper column. Today's article was about growing roses in our area. I learned some intersting things about roses while researching for that article. You can check it out by clicking on the link for the newspaper column blog.
Happy gardening!
