Spring Garden Chores

Jack has really been busy in the gardens - mostly the lakescape. That's his baby. He's decided to plant some annuals in amongst the native grasses and flowers and I have to admit that he's got a good eye when it comes to that. I'll get down there and take some pictures one of these fine days.

I'm doing the garden watering in the mornings. The vegetable garden and the perennial gardens on the road side of the house or what I call the front yard. It takes me about an hour just to water those areas. We're using lake water instead of water from our well. That's a good thing. Not only does it save our well water but the lake has so many good nutrients in the water and the plants just love that.

In "lake country" the lake side of the house is called the "front" and the road side is called the "back". We've lived here eleven years and I still can't get my mind around that. In my mind the front door is the door that you use to enter your house on a regular basis. And that door is on the road side of the house. In any case, I water the gardens on that side of the house.

I planted my herbs right in the perennial garden, this year. I'm going to try to get them in pots before it turns cold in the fall so that I can use them all year. But we'll see. Haven't had good luck just planting them in pots. They seem to dry out so quickly.

I took this photo of the irises in the garden beside the driveway. It's at the top of a retaining wall and there is an evergeen garden of sorts just below where these irises are. The yard slopes down from there so you kind of get a panoramic view of the rest of the front (or back) yard. If you look closely you can see the vegetable garden in the far right corner...that's rhubarb growing next to the veggie garden.

And that's Jack on his lawn tractor. Probably getting ready to mow. This yard is just too big. One of these days we'll downsize. That'll suit me just fine. Until then, we'll just keep weeding, watering, mowing.