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This clump of Daffodils in my front bed just all suddenly burst open over past two days!   They have such cheerful happy faces! Hopefully, it will be sunny tomorrow, so I can try for a better shot. I have fond memories of Daffodils growing up. We lived out in the country and there was this area that was about 15 by 25 feet on the other side of the driveway near the Dogwood tree that our parents planted with Daffodils. Every year that area would be a field of Daffodils, thicker every year. Mother said she tried to dig some up to take with her when she moved to Terre Haute, but they'd buried themselves so deeply by then, the were impossible to dig up.   Here's another project I did last Wednesday. .. I'm killing all the Liriope (Monkey Grass) that's gotten rather thick here, along my neighbors fence. It's brutal to have to dig up, since it's roots form a thick mat. So, instead of digging, I just cover the area of Liriope I want to kill reall...

I was actually busy Wednesday, so I didn't get around to doing a Garden Pic post, so I decided to show off the first blooms of my Daffodils today! It means, for Northwest Florida, winter is generally over.  I ordered some veggies seeds to day from a company called Seed Savers, which is devoted to saving the diversity of our worlds flower and vegetable seeds, because varieties are gradually becoming homogenized by big farming. Many of their seeds have fascinating origins; some donated by families who've owned and grown them for generations! I ordered a bush zucchini, bush green beans & a drought resistant kind of spinach. I plan on buying tomato plants locally. I'll want to get going on the veggie garden around mid-March. Today, I planted the potted Hyacinth bulbs I'd purchased a couple week ago into their permanent location outside and used my weeding tool to dig up numerous Spider Worts that are where I don't want them.  They're pretty, but i...

I know spring is in the air when the Daffodils start blooming! These daffodils in my front bed are the first to bloom every year!  Blueberries are starting to bloom. Yet, it's only Feb 1 and I'm not sure we're out of the woods for cold blasts, even in Florida. Stop back tomorrow to see what's up for Mama Kat!

The tree-cutters came this week and took down the cedar tree in the front yard. I was able to save a inch thick disc of trunk I thought I'd dry and do something with. It's about 6 inches in diameter. Just waiting for the stump-grinder yet to polish off what's left, then we'll be able to plant the Holly tree . I've got Cubed Steak cooking in the Slow Cooker right now that is smelling delicous!  It was a Pinterest recipe I featured in Good Eating. (The links will take you to previous blog posts featuring the Holly & the Slow Cooker Cube Steak recipe!) Today's Garden Pics are signs of Spring here in northern Florida:  Summer Snowflakes are the cutest things! They're a relative of Snow Drops and both are members of the Amaryllis family. This patch of Daffodils in my front bed faithfully blooms first and earliest of all my yellow Daffodils! What a patch of Easter Lilies looks like before it blooms. Classed as a "natura...