Where Is My List?

Now, where is that list of blog post ideas I wrote down?

It was here somewhere.

Well, never mind, because the first Glory of the Snow, Chionodoxa sp., showed up in the lawn on Monday. It’s wayyyy out there by the Vegetable Garden Cathedral entrance, if anything can be wayyyy out there in a garden that’s “about a third of an acre.”

Oh, you saw that clover in the picture? Yes, it’s there for many reasons.

First, it is there because I “purposely on purpose actually” sowed seeds for clover in my back lawn.

I did that because I remember clover growing in all the lawns when I was a kid. We kids spent many happy areas playing with the flowers and looking for four-leaf clovers.

Secondly, I hoped the rabbits hopping through would find the clover a better meal than my newly emerging green beans. So far, I think that’s been the case.

Thirdly, clover is a legume so it fixes nitrogen in the soil, making it available for other plants in the lawn, other plants like grass. Theoretically, this means I don’t need to use much lawn fertilizer to keep the lawn looking “nice.”

And the fourth reason there is clover is because I never use herbicides on the back lawn because it would kill the crocuses and Glory of the Snow that I’ve been planting in the lawn for years.

I still haven’t found that list of brilliant and clever topics I was going to write about, so I’ll wrap this post up by showing one of the many containers of violas and pansies I planted out on Monday.

I’m proud of myself for buying and planting all the flats of pansies and violas on the same day!

How many flats did I buy and plant? That’s a big secret. Am I going to buy more pansies and violas? Absolutely. Monday’s buying-and-planting is what I call a good start. High temps were around 75F, which is warm for early March.

While I go look for that list, which should make future posts more interesting, you should click on the email (if you got this through email) and go check out my updated website. I changed it up quite a bit. Go to the main page and see one of my currently favorite quotes. I plan to change that quote every so often, just to keep things fresh. Check out the flowers I’ve featured too. I might change those seasonally, as one does in a garden. Feel free to leave me feedback too, especially if something doesn’t look quite right.

Thanks for reading to the end! I’m off to find my list and also make a list of what I’m going to do in the garden these next few weeks heading into Easter!