Some of today’s blog is about things I’ve seen on Pinterest and some things I’ve pinned. All are about the garden. I was looking on Pinterest last week in the gardening section while the husband was watching something boring on TV. I see this strawberry planter, it is a little late to plant strawberries but I thought that would be a great project for next spring. I show the picture to my husband and say, “what you think about doing this in the spring?” He looks at the picture, nods his head and looks back at the TV. Little did I realize his brain was hard at work.
“What are the measurements?” he asked. I clicked on the Pin and of course it’s a dead link. But the caption on the Pin says something like ‘Strawberry garden bed by the square yard‘. He studies the picture for a few minutes.
Next thing I know we are at Lowes buying stuff for our strawberry bed. Everything except strawberry plants. We choose some trailing annuals to plant until spring. Lowes is always an adventure, Hubby likes to get in get stuff and get out. You put me in the garden center and I am there for a long time. I will fill the cart with plants walk around some more than replace all the plants I’ve chosen with other plants. And I’m always in search of flowers that are black. Usually with no luck.
Hubby, me and power tools is a funny/bad combination. Funny for me bad for my man. He always hits his thumb sometime during a build project. I always laugh. I had several hearty laughs during this project. Since we used guess-aments on the measurements our bed turned out slightly different then the Pin. But I must say I love it! We like most people struggle with money so our budget only allowed a few plants and we could only plant just one side. I can’t wait until I can fill all four sides with flowers.
This spring I saw the suet cage bird nest thingy pin. Thingy being a technical term. You take an empty suet cage sill with yarn, ribbon and fabric scraps. Hang outside and the birds use all that stuff to build their nest. I filled my suet cage, hung it up and birds flocked to it grabbing up materials. My daughter jokingly said “What if all those birds are in other peoples trees?” she so jinxed me. Somewhere are people enjoying some people awesome bird nests. I did find one nest in my crab apple tree with a dash of color. I was disappointed until I saw baby birds. Baby birds! How can you not be happy about that? Well turns out you can…baby birds are loud and apparently don’t sleep. But thankfully that last only a few weeks.
I love my yard. It is work in progress. In past homes I would follow design rules about gardening and I was happy with my yards but not in love with them. When we moved to our current home I decided to plant what I want where I want. Now I LOVE MY YARD!
Here is my little herb raised bed:
My BAHs, big ass hostas:
My awesome planter in the spring with bulbs and now with a mix of plants:
Shady spot under tree. This is the first year so everything is small. In the next few years it will be full of hostas and ferns.
So my advice, leave the bodies out of the garden they keep better in the trunk anyway.
The Pinteresting Life of Gotha Stewart 