Notes From Zone 4

I got a call from our town garden club person, and our garden’s been selected for the garden tour this year. Yay! I’m nervous but excited. She told me that refreshments are usually provided by the host, which I hadn’t known, so now I’m wondering just what I can do. I’ll be weeding like a fool from now until June 29th, trying to get everything just perfect out there.

We worked outside in the garden all day. Yay! Spring is finally here. I am absolutely ignoring the stupid weather forecast that says the rain tomorrow might mix with snow. Screw that. I’m tired of damn snow. We couldn’t have much snow in the actual winter, where it’s supposed to snow, so it can just stop the freaking snowing now. I have spoken. I’ve been weeding and organizing different beds, feeling very proud of myself for what I’m accomplishing. I finally found a pair of gloves that fit so well that I’m not forever taking them off. My window boxes in the basement are so ready to come outside already, and all of the perennials that I got are ready too.

I just wanted to note that we placed an order for a mosquito magnet today. I’m really looking forward to being able to garden much more with that, without having to arm myself by wearing a bug suit. I’m not sure how it will do with black flies, but I have high hopes.

The weather is finally nice enough to get out there and get started on the spring chores. First up, I’m absolutely that the entire lawn needs to be raked before anything can be applied to the lawn. It looks like we left too much cut grass on it too late in the season, or it

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