I bought this to get at the hard-to-prune areas on the apple trees. Pretty small but it gets the job done. It is just turning warm here and I wanted to get trimming done before the sap starts running (no, not me 🤣)

These pine branches are next. These were dropped by the power company while they were restoring power after the crash out front last month. Brush pickup will start here in about three weeks.

Spent a couple hours out thinning the fruit trees. They got great pollination this year to the point that the fruit coming in is ridiculous.

Got one chore checked off. ✅

On the cusp

Like a lot of other people, we've been lured by recent spring-like weather into spring-like chores.

In a collosal leap of faith, I pulled up our driveway markers Tuesday and took a couple of preliminary steps toward taking the snowblower off our tractor and installing the mower.

Meanwhile, Sharon slashed and burned, raked and burned, dragged and burned ... Look carefully and you might see her behind the smokescreen.

Spring saffron chores are really mild.  I took the wire screen off the bed, it needs to go to the veggie bed in the backyard now.  I carefully reviewed the entire saffron patch, and anything growing in it that wasn’t saffron was pulled up.  This is a really important time to stop incipient weeds.  All those green leaves are still nourishing the underground corms, and need to be left in place.

Start Spring Clean Up Now!

The grass is starting to green up and bulbs are peeking through the soil and spring is around the corner. Gardening chores come fast and furious once warm weather hits and sometimes you don’t have time to fit all the tasks in. To jump-start your gardening year, you can hit the ground running early to get a head start. Late winter is my favorite time to get many of the spring jobs done or at least…