I haven't made my seed orders yet but I think I am close to finalizing what I am going to order.
We haven't had a warm day since my last entry and I have been itching to get out in the yard. Especially since I noticed some daffodils near the house breaking ground. So that reminded me that I have daffodils in the backyard that I transplanted two years ago all along my back fence. Well all those daffs are buried under leaves that have blown in so I would really like to get those leaves mulched and into my compost piles (not to mention all my other perennial flower beds along the fences are buried too).
I broke down and bought some squirrel baffles. I have two suet feeders that the squirrels have been at this year. They haven't bothered them in years past but this year I think there were more squireels wintering around my yard. I have been averaging six when in years past I have seen mostly three. I bought the kind of baffle that hangs above the feeder and so far so good.
I have been looking around the stores recently looking for onion sets. I plant them as soon as I can in March. Every place either doesn't carry them or the doesn't have them in yet. I will also probably get a 30 pound bag of bone meal as well to add it to the soil when I turn it under in the onion patch and the rest of the veggie garden.
I think I might prepare my veggie garden a little different this year. In years past I have run the mower over the leaves that have fallen in the garden over the winter. I am still going to do that but this year I think I will bag them and place them back. I think last year I noticed that alot of what I mowed/mulched just blew out of the garden and into the grass. So I think I will bag it then dump it in the grass and mow it over again to get it finer and then dump/spread it in the veggie garden along with some additional leaves from the compost pile and then till it under mixing in some bone meal and wood ashes (from a relatives wood burning stove).
