Sunny today but cold–in the mid-20’s (-7C). The cold doesn’t seem to bother the emerging perennials.
A couple of blue jays are picking in the garden, looking for worms maybe or insect larvae. They fly away when I come out with the camera, so no picture.
Clean-up is underway. Lots of raking and pulling out the nasty ground cover weeds that seem to thrive in winter.
And I discovered a hack for picking oak leaves out of rose bushes–a kitchen tongs. Keeps my hands out of the thorns.
Warm-up is predicted this week. The lettuce will go in and zinnia seeds spread. Happy spring.
I was just saying we will need to uncover the roses and you give me this great hack! Thanks!
I have before-and-after pictures. I’ll post the method tomorrow, although surely someone somewhere has already been doing this for years. Who knew?