It’s Go, Go, Go
Today marks the start of the official spring planting season for Texas. Easter weekend is always my traditional day of planting and is one of my favorite days of the year. According to the Farmer’s Almanac we should be out of any predictive freezes so the time is right. Since I am at BFS’s house this weekend his front bed is getting the royal treatment. This bed is about to feel like she’s having a spa day, full of dirt reconditioning, weeding, planting, fertilizing, and mulching. This little bed will be breathing a nutrient filled sigh of relief once we are done. Sound crazy do I? I don’t see how gardening is any different than rooting for your favorite sports team. Especially here in suburbia where the competition is high and HOA fines are penalties. So consider this Season Opening.
The above picture is the target. Today we are basically preparing the soil. I went into more detail in the previous post about the specific of what will be planted, but only a few border and highlight plants will be going in today. We will mostly be focusing on getting the soil up par. I want the dirt nice and delicious for when the specimens go in. Specimen plants being those you really want to shine in the bedded arrangement. As you can see, there is much work to be done. It is a challenge to keep up with even a small front garden and when it hasn’t been worked in a while, and this boor bed baby really needs some TLC.
Super awesome BFS has been hard at work killing the unwanted grass and getting the sprinkler system ready…. As soon as I can get these lazy bums up and out the door we are go, go, go. I guess we stayed up too late last night watching Strange brew and having a few brews of our own. (What’s that all aboot, eh?) I will post pictures of out progress later tonight and Happy Easter weekend to all and good luck to any of you out there gardening this weekend yourself. I know several said they would be, but the chance of thunderstorms might interfere. I would love to see pictures and comments on how your spring gardens are doing. Ta!