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Dear Friends,
These days not everyone has a garden, so it is not good to assume others are thinking a lot like me. In truth I do have my garden on my mind these days.
Especially as I recall that I normally have seeded my garden in May, and here I am in June, and I still need to bury the piles of compost I dumped in the winter. I see there are lots of weeds to pull too. Plus about a dozen big bags of leaves to move back until I can get them into the green compost bin to be picked up. It only takes 6 big bags full of leaves at once; I've 12- or 13 bags full.
My plan to go out to work outside for 30 minutes after supper is turning out well. I was wiped out exhausted after the first week of doing that. Now my muscle- strength is coming back and the work doesn't seem nearly as exhausting.
I recall now how I moaned and complained when Mom wanted me to join her in the garden for the seeding. I had to close the book I was reading and go to work.
Now the joy of deciding what to sow in each row is a delight, and I can hardly wait to see how each row of vegetables or flowers will do.
I like to put in a row of flowers for every 2-3 rows of vegetables so that the flowers will attract insects to help fertilize the veggie plants to make sure a veggie grows where the flower was.
Some flowers are perennials, so it is delightful to see them breaking out into bloom even now. The lilac bushes caught my eyes on Sunday and when I got back home I went out with a scissor to cut a number of stems full to bring inside. A few purple irises are blooming already!
I've just dashed out to take a few snapshots of the purple irises, the white/mauve ones from Mom's are more lovely and look more serene, but they come a bit later.
The rhubarb plant Dad always had close to the rain barrel has a tall stem already and several mops of seeds at the top! Of course, I planted it by the blue rain barrel.
If you enjoy my garden descriptions and photos do let me know. There's always something interesting in the garden - at least in my eyes!
(Now I just have to figure out how to get the pics from my iPhone to my desktop so that I can use them here. Hmmm!!)
Blessings & Prayers, Ruth Friesen
P.S. My apologies! I'm having trouble figuring out these steps for transferring from my iPhone to my desktop or even an email. I'm going to have to find someone who can guide me through all the steps. And it appears that there are several ways to do this. I've only fussed with one way yet.
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