Feet on the Floor

Wild Flora Farm for May 1 2007

APRIL WAS THE WACKY MONTH. We started with cold, including something like a snowstorm (the only one this winter) on Easter Sunday, then had sunny days that sent me rushing out to the garden, followed by spate of weather so cold that certain muscovy ducks (who were sitting on eggs that were supposed to hatch into my next group of pets) abandoned their nests. So Huey, Dewey, and Louie (and possibly Donald, Daisy, and Scrooge) will not be arriving for at least another month and a half.

The change(s) in the weather inspired activity, nonetheless. Vegetable and flower beds and native plantings were weeded. Spinach was planted. Poplar stakes were moved from the refrigerator to a bed in the vegetable garden, where they quickly began to bud out. Muskrats were photographed. We finished painting the breakfast room, installing the laminate flooring, and putting up shelves. I gave the Wild Gardening blog a slight redesign and managed to keep posting every day or so, starting a series of items about the transformation of my front yard from forlorn, weedy lawn to (one of these day, I hope) fabulous native woodland. Oh, and the blog received its first press coverage; the gardening columnist for the Halifax Chronicle-Herald quoted me and mentioned the blog in a column about gardening for pollinators. Yay!

Most of these achievements are documented in the web album that accompanies this post. As always, you can check out the gardening blog at Wild Flora's Wild Gardening. The column in which the blog is mentioned can be viewed, at least for the time being, at the Halifax Herald's website.