Laying in Supplies

Sunny and in the 50s today, so not cold, but it's windy. The afternoon brought horrible dust storms, an emergency warning alert on the phone, and our umbrella (with its 80 pound base) sailed over and toppled to the ground. 

Later in the week it gets calmer and warmer and above freezing at night. Some things are starting to green up.

Look at what the bush clematis is doing. It's getting tall and green and leafy. When we've had below freezing nights it blackens, then comes back. It will shoot up even more later this week when the warmth comes.

I'll take all the pots out of the garage and let them air out and green up. When cold returns, which it will, I'll have to schlep them back inside, but it's time to get them outdoors for a while.

To be ready for the nice weather coming, I laid in supplies today. I went to Newman's and got 3 bags of potting soil, three bags of compost and 5 bags of mulch. And two bottles of liquid fertilizer.

Barely enough, but a start.

And I got two clay vase pots in a gray tone for setting out on the table by the garage door. 

And a green plastic 2 gallon watering can finally.