{"id":604,"date":"2005-03-19T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-19T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=604"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"pre-spring-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2005\/03\/pre-spring-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-spring fever"},"content":{"rendered":"

After work on Friday we stopped at the grocery store to pick up some sodas for movie night. On our way in they had a whole bunch of flowers for sale, and then I realized: Wow, spring starts in a few days! We’ve had a snowy March (in fact, there is a tiny bit of snow still on our lawn), so the realization that it was time for flowers was surprising. <\/p>\n

This afternoon I was outside today talking with Michael about our plans for the house I noticed that my perennials had started to come up, oh my! I haven’t even cleaned the leaves out of the flower beds<\/a> yet!<\/p>\n

So that’s what I spent about an hour doing. It’s in the 50s out, so nice for garden work. I started going through the plots with my gloved hands and some small garden tools, but for the bigger beds I took a normal lawn rake and got most of the junk out. The perennials are pretty tough, so being raked over doesn’t hurt them as long as I don’t get crazy about it.<\/p>\n

After I had gotten those cleaned out I went to the side yard and started cleaning up there, but I was hot and thirsty, so I packed up my gardening tools for the day.<\/p>\n

I have made a couple decisions about my garden this year.<\/p>\n

First off, the vegetable garden that I spend so many weeks on last year is being scrapped. I don’t have nearly enough time for it anymore, and the yield for most of the veggies was pitiful.<\/p>\n

Second, I still want to grow green beans. I think I’ll be growing them in one or two of the white, concrete flower beds.<\/p>\n

Third, I want to make an attempt at filling out the rest of the flower beds with some flowers that I have to plant, not just bulbs. Since I let the whole thing run it’s course on it’s own last year I’m pretty familiar with what beds have bulbs and when.<\/p>\n

Still, I think it’s a bit overwhelming. I bet one of the previous owners of the house did gardening for a hobby. 11 big flower beds near the driveway, a sea of hostas on the side of our house, and a whole enclosed garden plot lining the side of the house facing the street. Oh, and the huge veggie garden that I shrunk 80% to make my veggie garden for last year. We’ll see how it all goes.<\/p>\n

It was great to get outside and work in the yard again, and it’s a great way to work off the pounds I always put on over winter.<\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After work on Friday we stopped at the grocery store to pick up some sodas for movie night. On our way in they had a whole bunch of flowers for sale, and then I realized: Wow, spring starts in a few days! We’ve had a snowy March (in fact, there is a tiny bit of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}