The Need To Weed ... and Tidy uP

Hey there friends,

Hope yall are havin a good weekend.

I'm fixin to head out and try to make a dent in the weeding department.  

It's abit overwhelming at the moment.  

You know how it is when you plant and gotta wait til everything is up so you can tell what's what?

Then it rains, 

and you can't till coz it's mud.  

So you wait... and just when you think you'll till... something comes up and 

it rains... 

and you have more mud.  

Before ya know it... your garden looks like this.  

The weeds have a runaway... and before you know it...

they're taller than what you planted.  

Can you see tomato seedlings in this mess?

Well they're there.  

Little baby towmaters.  

I have a row of larger ones but these were all planted from seed.

It's gonna be some fun weedin. 

:)  

At least this chirping might keep me company.  Every birdhouse around has 

chicklets I think.  

Most have already learned to hush 

when I come close.  

But on this particular day... these lil guys were so hungry because I'd been out here so long.  Their  

lil  Momma flew off to watch from the tulip tree.  

They'd start chirping their heads off and she'd do her Momma scolding from above.

I think it was something like "Yall hush now... don't make me come down there!!!!"- in 

English Sparrow.  

This butterfly house is ready and waiting right below the sparrows and 

those pretty sprigs of Fennel will hopefully lure the caterpillars in.  

A few years back, I planted a whole row of red-tip Photinia for a screen basically

from the road.  I like the peace and quiet in my garden and for years these 

bushes provided privacy as well as home for many birds.

Unfortunately for the last three seasons they've almost all but died.  They have a horrible fungus

and after this Momma Blue Jay is finished raising her brood; all these bushes are going to be

uprooted and taken out.  It's gonna be so hard to see them go but it's gonna happen.

This is what they look like from the front.  You shouldn't beable to see anything through them.

They've fought the good fight.  Soon however, we'll tie a chain to each one with Buck the farmtruck, and pull them out by the root.  They need to be burned and I'm gonna scrape up under neath them as best as I can and burn all that too.  Then, we'll be putting up a wooden fence here first and when that's done something new will get planted.  To change it up even further; the fence may get put up in front of the truck to give me more garden room.  The truck will still get planted back there somewhere but won't be seen anymore from the road.  I'm kind of excited to do something new and have all that new fence to plant around.  Both sides!  

 Earlier this morning when I opened up  the greenhouse; I glanced over 

and saw Ophelia the cat standing right below the turquoise birdfeeder.  And a bird was on the feeder.  

I called her... and she was frozen.  

Not a whisker moved.  The bird didn't either.  

Then a little wren looking bird landed on the platform feeder and they were just oblivious to 

the cat statue.  ?  

I ran over there and just before I got to her she lunged and darn near caught the bird on the house feeder.  Then she went for the other one ... and I had to grab her by the tail.  

She's spending the afternoon in an old shed.  

There's mice in there so she oughta be quite happily hunting still.  

I love this cat but... love birds too.  

What are ya gonna do.  

?

 Back to the greenhouse;

--Finally got the yellow knock out rosebush planted out front. 

Still have the cleanup around it to do.

 And this is more weedin. 

 Somewhere in that mess ...

is a stand of zinnias.  

I can't see them can you?

lol

 All of this needs to go somewhere too.  

 I'm about to run out of pots but 

these two chairs will be flowerpots.  

eventually.  

hopefully

maybe. 

 This is the only one I've  gotten  

done this Spring.  

 One of the other  things on my to do list was to get Urinah Mariah here out of the 

potting shed.  Mission accomplished; with no casualties.

Last year she became a gigantic wasp nest inside her.  

Ohmyword... it was bad.  

I knew I needed to get her out of there this early spring, or the same thing would happen

to her.  So today... as terrifying as it was... i grabbed her and headed out the door.  Thankfully

she only had mud dobbers inside so it wasn't too bad.  No spiders in her clothes either. 

 This one went out in her place.  

She's covered in  burlap and has no holes to nest in.  

Haha waspers.  You can't have her.  

And she's stayin.   My cowgirl hat may be another story though.

Last year I grabbed it to head out the door of the potting shed and thank God 

I didn't just pop it on my head coz it too had a wasp nest in it with red waspers

that came flying out at me.  

This year I'm gonna hang some paper bags like they say to do and see if that helps. 

Supposedly; (hear my scepticism)  wasps think it's a hornets nests and steer clear.  I'll be surprised if it works but hey..

I'll try anything.   

 I leave yall with some  rose blooms from a tree the kids gave me 

last Mother's day.  Tony planted it in this wooden pot and it's doing really well 

on the porch.  But I better get the gloves on and get after it.

Have a great weekend...

xoxo Leaon Mary