Why sweet peat is good for you and your garden

More later on Pat and Jim's back yard adventure.

I'm back

I'm back! All my class projects are done and sent. I can now direct my full attention to what is sitting in the driveway. It's 6 cubic yards of sweet peat. Why six yards you may ask? Any more at one time spills on to the grass. What a wonder of the modern world sweet peat is. Who would have ever thought that suburbanites like me would buy composted horse manure and shredded leaves. Well, I don't want the poney. I just want the sweet peat.

Why are easter eggs colored?

So kids can find them in the snow.

Not so fast

Well so much for mowing the grass. i wonder if the snow blower has any gas in it?

A brief glimpse of Spring

Monday and Tuesday were wonderful. The temp was in the 70's and spring flowers were blooming. Not so soon says mother nature. Wednesday the temp dropped and it snowed. Go figure. And to think, I was going to mow the yard.

Spring

The yard is bursting in new growth. The lagularia in the top picture is showing itself. This little plant will get 3 feet tall will flower in late August with a brilliant orange flower. The primrose in the lower two pictures is quite a wonderment. We moved these guys 3 times last year. their feet were getting too wet. It looks like we found the right place for them. I don't know the latin term for any of the plants in the yard. My latin is confined to my boys latin names. There is Bobicus canineicus, known to the world as Bob the dog and Fredicus caninicus, known to the world as fred the dog.

The yard is fully racked and ready as Jim and Pat's pallett. We start an enlarged front terrase with flower beds tommorrow. Hope to get it done before the snow comes at the end of the week. This is Cleveland in the spring after all.

Wonderful Spring

The temperature is in the 60's and the sun is out. What a great day to do yard work. It's time to rake all yard and get all the leaves and thatch out of it. That way we can assess any damage the boys or other critters did over the winter.

The bushes we planted last fall all have buds on them so maybe our bad luck luck streak has ended.

Our first flower of the year bloomed . It's a lenten rose. The plant stayed green all winter. It's so nice that we are going to get a bunch because if one is good, more are better, especially when it comes to plants we can't kill.

We made our first spring visit to Home Depot. We were only going for some grass seed, really we were. What we got was 5 boxwoods, a cherry tree, a flowering pear tree, a concrete benck, two really cool pots, and three more rabbits to drive the boys crazy.

We also put out some more lawn ornatemtation that we picked up at the Cleveland garden show. Well we have to get this all planted before the weekend. The forcast is for snow. Ah! Cleveland in the early spring. You gotta love it.

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