{"id":10314,"date":"2024-03-11T18:14:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T22:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10314"},"modified":"2024-03-11T18:14:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T22:14:56","slug":"with-this-unseasonably-warm-weather-were-getting-a-lot-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/03\/11\/with-this-unseasonably-warm-weather-were-getting-a-lot-done\/","title":{"rendered":"With this unseasonably warm weather, we’re getting a lot done"},"content":{"rendered":"

Usually at this time of the year, we have feet of snow still on the ground, plus huge snowplow mounds on the edges of the front yard and flower beds next to the driveway. Today, it’s nearly 60 degrees F and sunny. Will’s tackling cleaning up the front yard. Seventeen years ago, my son, David, and I installed raised flower beds around it and put up free fencing made up of pallets, screwed vertically, onto our flower bed’s railroad ties. Over the years, some of the wood rotted and the heavy snow and wind shoved the pallets outward, toward the trees. It still kept the deer out but was starting to be ugly.<\/p>\n

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In this old photo, David is helping me build our first raised bed flower gardens in the front yard. See how small the trees, beyond, are!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I want to enlarge the front yard to include some of the trees which have, since we built the house, grown up to 30 feet high. We’re going to fence the whole thing discreetly, with six-foot-high welded wire fence with some decorative rustic picket fencing along it, on the outside. I’m planning on cleaning out the wooded area, and making it park-like, planting hostas and shade-loving flowers here and there. It’s hard for me to think of when those tall trees used to be so small I could straddle them!<\/p>\n

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See how much the trees have grown? Here, Will and Sarge are picking up logs from dead trees Will cut down, which will eventually be firewood.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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With the beautiful weather and no snow, we have a head start on cleaning up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got all of my peppers planted this weekend and they are sitting up behind our wood stove, waiting to germinate. This works so well for me! It does look a little ugly with the plastic bags enclosing the flats. But it keeps them moist and toasty, so they germinate quickly. All of my habaneros and hot peppers germinated well and quickly. That’s nearly unheard of without fancy pre-treatment!<\/p>\n

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Our living room is now full of flats of peppers, from germinating seeds under the plastic bags to seedling habaneros in our little plastic greenhouses facing south.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’ll be a couple of weeks before I start my tomatoes, but I do have a few flowers like petunias and pansies to get started as they grow slowly. That’ll hold my addiction in check. Ha ha! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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