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I live in Philly, which means garden-planting season isn't coming until May 1st. Seems mean, since it feels like May 1st now. (It's warm enough to wear summer clothes.) I saw a daffodil ready to bloom at hubby's rehab center. I hope it's kind enough to bloom if I can get him outside in his wheelchair this weekend. (Physical rehab during the week, so he's too tuckered to travel then, but nothing happens on weekends, so there's a chance.)
This will be the second year I gardened without his help, and the first year was easy, because it was also the first year I gardened, so I only started with four tomato plants then.
Since my other hobby is blogging from the viewpoint of my stuffed animals, I have a picture of that first garden preparation (with the "Garden Gals" -- the female stuffed animals who think they are the gardeners in the family.)
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Same gardening space. Same family of stuffed animals to tell the gardening tales, but a few years later when we had a video camera. (My voice, raised slightly higher, because I'm trying to make a voice for Spaulding, my first teddy bear that started this strange hobby of mine.
Also my hand occasionally. lol)
[video=youtube;bO2gINZD04s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO2gINZD04s[/video]
I'm not sure how gardening will go this year. In the last four months most of my day is either trying to deal with everything I need to deal with before (or after) going to visit hubby, or I am visiting hubby. Container garden, so it requires watering with someone aiming the hose in all containers (except for the cactii and succulents) every day, which takes about an hour -- including weed picking, minor little quick fixes, like a tomato needs to be staked, and admiring and smelling each plant. Hubby has been the muscles and the troubleshooter for our garden and now he's not here. Not sure if he'll see the garden at all this summer, so, boy! I really would like a place where we can talk gardening and exchange ideas again. (Many of our plants are perennials so there is no option to simply skip caring for the garden. That AND we planted a blackberry bush last year, and I so hope it fruits!
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(I find it funny that PW and I exchanged ideas on this post last year, we both left since then and both came back with new names. I am wondering if he's ready to plow his garden yet.)
This will be the second year I gardened without his help, and the first year was easy, because it was also the first year I gardened, so I only started with four tomato plants then.
Since my other hobby is blogging from the viewpoint of my stuffed animals, I have a picture of that first garden preparation (with the "Garden Gals" -- the female stuffed animals who think they are the gardeners in the family.)
View attachment 145556
Same gardening space. Same family of stuffed animals to tell the gardening tales, but a few years later when we had a video camera. (My voice, raised slightly higher, because I'm trying to make a voice for Spaulding, my first teddy bear that started this strange hobby of mine.
[video=youtube;bO2gINZD04s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO2gINZD04s[/video]
I'm not sure how gardening will go this year. In the last four months most of my day is either trying to deal with everything I need to deal with before (or after) going to visit hubby, or I am visiting hubby. Container garden, so it requires watering with someone aiming the hose in all containers (except for the cactii and succulents) every day, which takes about an hour -- including weed picking, minor little quick fixes, like a tomato needs to be staked, and admiring and smelling each plant. Hubby has been the muscles and the troubleshooter for our garden and now he's not here. Not sure if he'll see the garden at all this summer, so, boy! I really would like a place where we can talk gardening and exchange ideas again. (Many of our plants are perennials so there is no option to simply skip caring for the garden. That AND we planted a blackberry bush last year, and I so hope it fruits!
(I find it funny that PW and I exchanged ideas on this post last year, we both left since then and both came back with new names. I am wondering if he's ready to plow his garden yet.)
The stuffed animals are a fun touch.
Did your husband get to see the daffodil?