Last Spring I posted about decorating a garden sign with twine, silk flowers and some glitter paint. I’ve really enjoyed the sign, but felt it needed a bit more flash. After I finished the gnome diamond painting, I found myself with spare gems and thought they would be perfect to gussy-up my garden sign a bit more. I sat down with the extras and some tacky glue and went to work. I’m quite pleased with the way it turned out.
Wishing you all a fabulous week.
Taking pictures in the garden is one of the extra joys of gardening. It also helps me to see the health of the plants/vines.
As I was taking photos of my squash I saw an adult Squash Vine Borer. I was not happy about it. Fortunately, I had on my handy-dandy plastic gloves and was able to grab the demon bug and dispatch of her in short measure. This, I might add, is quite a feat, since these particular pests are fast. Thankfully she hadn’t laid an egg.
In my opinion, the SVB is one of the most vicious pests in the garden because it’s almost impossible to do anything about them.
And so the battle begins… 
In 2015, I wrote about a SVB grub that showed up in a squash stem I had harvested.
Here’s a link to that post ‘Evil Demon Squash Vine Borer Grub’
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Originally, When I bought this garden sign it was too plain for such a good message.
So, I decorated it with a glue gun, twine, silk flowers and some glitter paint.
I was happy I could give it a bit of the glamour that it deserved.
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” Audrey Hepburn
My husband built me another small flowerbed to transplant some of the flowers in. It’ll look pretty when the flowers have more blooms.
~Greenhouse Update~
The last of the greenhouse plants, squash and marigolds, are now planted in the flowerbed and garden. We took our greenhouse down and stored it away until next Spring.
I hope y’all are having a lovely week.
I had to take down and store my small greenhouse. We had it anchored inside with some heavy concrete blocks. Unfortunately, the greenhouse had no way to anchor it on the outside. The wind proved to be mightier than the anchor blocks and toppled it over.
I’m fortunate that the only plants in it was the lettuce and chard. They were bounced around but didn’t get broken or smashed. They’re living happily in our garden now.
I had been planning to replace my small greenhouse with a larger greenhouse with more shelves. I had a new one ordered and was waiting for it to arrive, so it was kind of a help the wind toppling my small one.
We had fun putting the new one together. There’s nothing much more amusing than two old folks figuring out directions on how to assemble a project. lol
The new greenhouse has anchors on each outer corner to tie it down. We’re using concrete blocks on the lowest shelves and around the bottom edge of the cover as extra anchor weight.
I guess I should add in here that meaning of the red ribbons on the tie-downs is that a ‘clumsy old lady owns the greenhouse’ and needs the ribbons to highlight the tie-downs, (so I won’t trip over them whilst going to open/close the windows. lol)
The new greenhouse has 3 windows with hook & loop tape flap closures. You can see them in the different pictures. The windows are blessing to circulate fresh air when needed.
The 3 windows were a defining factor in my choosing this green mesh greenhouse. Also, the green mesh cover will hopefully help to shade me a bit more than the clear cover would. It might protect the plants by shading them a bit more from the hot rays of the sun.
When I’m going to be in the greenhouse any length of time, I have to have the main door flap open. It presents a problem because of wasps and bugs. I’ve pretty much solved that problem by hanging a curtain I fashioned out of netting. The netting also helps keep more air circulating too.
I’ve got a few trays of seeds planted and hopefully they’ll begin to grow soon.
Wishing you all good things this Spring.
Joys Of Creating 