Thursday, April 7, 2011

Society of Feline Gardeners- Thursday in the Garden with Jonesie

::3 paw taps::

Welcome back to my garden.  We still have cold damp weather, but it is no longer raining constantly.  That means it's time to get busy! 

Last week I got lots of questions about my rhubarb.  We don't have it planted in full sun, although it gets plenty of sunshine.  We have a fence nearby that kind of blocks the afternoon sun.  It still does fine.  I think it likes our northwest garden with lots of good soil and cool weather.  I think rhubarb does not like hot, dry weather.  

In the bed next to it are iris plants.  There may be a few tulips in there too.  I always forget until they pop up and bloom! 

I'm not the cook around here so maybe I'll have Cory post about the rhubarb crisp recipe another day.

The grass will need to be mowed soon.  I don't really like the sound of the lawn mower.  I run and hide.  But when the grass is freshly mowed, the yard looks beautiful and it smells wonderful.  Like spring!

The gazebo needs to be checked out.  Right now it has no roof, so if it rains, it's kinda useless to me.  Unless I want to dash under it.

Hey there mom!  I know you adore it when I sharpen my cute claws on  your leg.

Dad still has not prepped this bed.

At least he got all the peat moss and sand and stuff...so it won't be long now!  The most important part is prepping the soil.

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23 comments:

Gemini and Ichiro said...

Our lawn needs mowing too! It must be all the rain.

Raymond and Busby said...

Jonesie, you look great! Your Dad has a lot of work to do, so we are glad your weather has improved.

Thanks for the rhubbarb info. We are trying to get ours to do better this year.

We are having COLD weather. AND rain. It's coming in tonight and lasting a couple days. We're glad we have resisted planting our zinnia seeds.

Summer at sparklecat.com said...

At least you have been working hard, Jonesie - it looks to me like your humans are lagging a bit!

Angel MoMo and Charlotte said...

Unlike us lazy slobbers here, you and your parents have worked hard. Look forward to a lovely spring garden soon.

Milo and Alfie Marshall said...

::3 paw taps::

Hi Jonesie, I hafta hurry back to mom 'cos she's still feeling poorly, but I just wanted to say I can almost smell that wonderful noo mown grass smell. An' I fink mom would LOVE rhubarb crisp. She loves everything wiv rhubarb in it.

Love Alfie xx

Tama-Chan, Benny, Vidock, Violette, Ollie, Heloise, Momo, Ryu said...

All you need now is the kind of gorgeous sunshine we are getting this week!

Purrs,
The Chans

Alasandra, The Cats and Dogs said...

We are celebrating Scylla's Gotcha Day in our garden.

We needs to mow the lawn too.

The Island Cats said...

Your garden is beginning to look good, Jonesie! Ours is still looking kinda sad...but it's supposed to get a little warmer and we've had a lotta rain, so things should be getting real green soon!!

Mariodacat said...

your garden is much better looking den ours. We still has little snow piles around.

Kea said...

Jonesie, your grass looks so lush, would be purrfect for nomming.

And we can see your dad has work to do, but we know that with your direction and snoopervision, he'll be able to tackle it!

-Fuzzy Tales

Cat said...

Oh Jonesie your grass looks beautiful, so lush and green! Our garden is not that advanced yet but it is great to see the promise of things to come :-)

The Florida Furkids said...

Gardens are a lot of work. Good thing you're on top of things!

The Florida Furkids and Angel Sniffie

Avalon Cat Cartoons said...

Hi! Cute pictures and cats. I'm your newest follower. I hope you can follow me back also; I'd appreciate it so much ;-) Have a lucky Thursday!

Avalon's Garden and Mewsings of Garden Cottage Cats said...

Ohhhh What a Lush Green lawn! I still in search of green bladez to munch on here ..... Now we are getting all your rain , maybe I will have lush lawn soon too! ^..^
We All agree wit you , we hate da noisey mower too ! You have been doin a real good job , gettin da beanz to do their garden chorez. We jus gettin started here.
Happy Gardening ~
Purrz ~ Ana

Mark's Mews (Marley, Lori, Loki, and Binq) said...

Great tour Jonesie! And yer unprepped bed looks better than ours...

Angel Junior, Orion and Sammy said...

you keep your pawrents in line Jonesie. Get them working on that garden pronto!

Milo and Alfie Marshall said...

OMC! We just popped back to follow the gardening links and we noticed yoor noo header! It's AWESOME! Really AWESOME!

Teddy Westlife said...

Your garden is so lovely and green! And I love your new header.

Anonymous said...

We are looking forward to seeing yoor toolips! From Oliver and Ruby

Brian's Home Blog said...

Sorry I'm late for the garden tour, our "weeds" got chopped yesterday. Enjoy your Sunday everyone!!!

Ariel said...

Lovely Garden :)

meowmeowmans said...

Looks as though you're ramping up for some great gardening, Jonesie!

Purrfect Haven said...

our grass isn't growing and it look poor - yours looks great! We have rhubarb on the allotment. Hope you have had some since this post. Love Helen, Darcy and Bingley xx