Planning for Spring

There is a corner of the yard out by the creek that captures and holds water when we have a long stretch of gently rain then a few thunderstorms. It turns into a pond pretty quickly. We’ve fought with it for a few years and I’ve been doing some research on how to rectify the situation. A bio-swale and rain garden will work perfectly over there. Native plants like Joe Pye Weed, Buttonbush, Blue Flag Iris, and Cardinal flowers are great pollinator magnets and love semishade and drink up all that water that occasionally overwhelms that little corner of the yard. The area is just begging to turn into another haven for hummers, bees and butterflies.

This area is shaded by huge sycamore trees in the mornings and dappled to direct sun in the afternoons. Our hummingbird feeders are nearby and I could stick some birdhouses around the perimeter of the property to add places to nest. There are even bee houses you can put up to encourage bees to stay around. Some people make the mistake of creating places for birds and bees and butterflies to eat…but don’t provide places for them to stay for their spring through fall mating season.

Ahhh, yes…I’ll add this to my long list of things I wish to accomplish before I’m too old to accomplish much!

I bought a few more food grade 5-gallon buckets with lids yesterday so today I need to get the grains in from the truck. I’ll leave them in a room with the dehydrator running for a few days to make sure they are perfectly dry before I package them up for long term storage. Then I can get to work putting the gardens to bed for the winter.

The work is never done, is it? Well, as my grandma used to say… “There’ll be plenty of time to rest when we’re dead. We’re burning daylight!”

Till tomorrow, dear ones…

Ginny

“Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭9‬:‭6‬ ‭NIV‬‬

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