Monthly Archives: May 2009

“The Whole Wide World Is Out A-Maying”

The flowers in the breeze are swaying, swaying, The whole wide world is out a-Maying – Genevieve Mary Irons

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May Garden Chores

Finish April’s chores!  Isn’t that the way it always is? Spray Roses and crepe myrtles with baking soda spray weekly to control black spot and fungus. Mow weekly, tune up mower and sharpen blades. Pot up extra seedlings to give away. Give bad bugs a soapy bath. Pull dandelions to feed to chickens and bearded […]

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Happy May Day!

I remember celebrating May Day as a kid.  We would make construction paper cones with a pipe cleaner hanger and decorate it with ribbons.  Then we would go to a field and pick wild flowers (I even remember doing some with flower out of the yard), wrap them in wet newspaper and wax paper and […]

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