Raised Beds Ready To Go

Please excuse the picture quality.  I used my camera phone and it's not very good.

 Mom/Grandma is blowing and going and ready for Spring!!!  She and my boys/her grandsons have already been shopping for soil, more boards and raised bed/box materials and plants.  Here is the one she had them build last year.  The one she can see sitting at the kitchen table with bird feeders in the foreground and her bluebonnets and daisies and snap dragons in the background.



And check it out!!! One of her bluebonnets has bloomed and there are more to come - the harsh hot/cold/snow and ice can't conquer Texas Bluebonnets.  Sadly, she doesn't think the snap dragons survived, but the daisies look like they're gonna make it *grin*



Here are the 2 new raised beds she had the guys put in.  The "squarer" one is against the fence with the alley in the background.  She plans to put a couple of blackberry plants against the fence and 15 - yep, 15 - strawberry plants in the front....yummmmmmmm

The rectangle box is for corn, beans, and okra.  The rectangle box is the one from our yard that my guys aren't using this year.

She's pared down to 2 rose bushes, or that's all that has survived thru the years.  Or maybe a combination of both.  One of the bushes is a Queen Anne and the other Mr. Lincoln - I think.  My apologies to y'all real gardeners if I messed the names up, hopefully, I got in the ballpark.  And can you see the odd color of the leaves this year?  Normally, they're green - like you'd expect, but not this year.  Wonder if the crazy winter had something do with the color change...


Last but not least the "original" bluebonnet/daisy/snap dragon garden on the side of the house now has onions, lettuce, spinach and maybe more to come, I can't remember.  There are a few stray bluebonnet plants at the top of the picture that my aunt is going to get and see if they take hold at her house in Mesquite.


My guys are just doing a couple of hanging baskets of little tomatoes for me this year.  I'm pretty sure I'll have mint too since there was some on the side by the patio that got dumped there when they cleaned out that basket.  Mint just goes crazy once it takes hold.  I'm kinda glad.  I really enjoy the way it smells when I hang out on the patio and I REALLY love to add it to ice water as the temperatures rise this summer.

WooHoo it's looking more and more like Spring - right down to our first tornado watch of the season - ugh :-)