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So Mulch Going On In The Garden!

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Wooden Posts with Strawberries & Mint Can we really move both of them?   Cocoa, Cypress, Straw and Hay.... Choose your mulch, gather your weeding tools, and proceed to spend the whole day in the garden.  I had pretty simple plans for the day when I first woke up. I planned on implementing a pretty simple mulching of the strawberry bed, and the vegetable garden. I am so sick of muddy paths already that a good "hay down" in the garden was necessary. However, when I took a look around I noticed that the scheme and flow of the berry garden was totally off.  After multiple breaks for water and resting a sore body; I actually got through the much too LONG tasks of  weeding, digging up, and separating the strawberry plants. This was after removing two super heavy and rotted wooden posts. Thank God I had help because there is no way I could have done this alone.  My helper keeping squirrels off their favorite posts Newly mulched Strawberry bed Not to ment

Do you see them? Do you?

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Tat Tsoi sprouting 2012 2012 Vegetable/Flower Seedlings My mini hoop/green house With their little new leaves just beginning to poke through the surface is Tat Soi, Cabbage, Zinnia, Marigold and two types of Romaine lettuce. I am so super excited by this sighting I had to share it a.s.a.p.. It's been less than two weeks (... if that) since I started my winter/spring sowing and erected my mini hoop greenhouse. These are the first signs of life by seed for our 2012 flower/vegetable garden. Looking very closely I can see that the cucumber and squash will soon begin to germinate. *not pictured*