My garden in a small rural village in northern Spain. Trimming grass and shrubs.
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Got my compost trommel going a little bit yesterday and this morning before work (and the rain)!
Was talking to my husband about jury-rigging up a cordless drill to spin it instead of manually. That is for later though. Right now this gets the job done! 
Treasure!!
I forgot to picture previously gnarly giant rusted nails, a decrepit pocket knife. I have also found a decent amount of marbles around the yard as well, so if someone says I lost them… I just need to go dig around in the garden!!
I really like marbles and hope to find more.
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I made my first graft today. Cleft grafted two lemon scions onto an existing, probably 10 year old trifoliata rootstock. I can’t find any parafilm or grafting tape here in Portugal, so I used electrical tape and candle wax.
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Potted up a couple of things, but mostly spent the day playing with the chainsaw and woodchipper clearing up much of the winter cull - intentional and natural. It felt rather productive.
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I’m a hyper-doer so I truly couldn’t list all I do on a weekend day with a chunk of free time, it’s insane. But, I have super high hopes of finishing off a few projects today- finishing and filling my new strawberry pallet beds, installing new, unobtrusive cucumber trellis we built, finishing wiring one of the new kiwi trellises, lots of vegetable garden-related tasks, some fertilizing and maybe a few more grafts. It’s set to be a relatively easy afternoon and I’m looking forward to not rushing as much as normal. If all goes according to plan, I’ll just be working on 3 more trellises in the next 10 days (one with cattle panels, 1 all conduit, 1 all bamboo that should be the most fun,) and then all major spring tasks will be complete and I can get back to other time suck things I love to do!!
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It started with one blueberry. I planted it at the edge of our pine forest.
I found out that this area is severely flooded all winter long, so I created a raised bed, and replanted it in there.
Then I decided I had to buy a second blueberry as a pollinator. So I created a second raised bed, and planted a second one in there.
But I created that bed a bit too enthusiastically, so it was large enough to accommodate two blueberries. So I bought number three.
Then I thought: if I connect the two beds, it will look better, and it is slightly more efficient in holding moisture in summer. The beds were six meters apart, so… after many wheelbarrows of soil, rotting wood, pine needles and bark, mulch, and big logs, I finally finished my connected raised bed and added blueberry numbers four and five.
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That is stunning! Great work. This is the kind of stuff I dream of doing on a chunk of land. Thanks for sharing
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almost done with filling in all my dirt LOL. i got everything i have right now planted, gearing up for the great muscadine shipping experience.
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Due to the seed heads appearing today, I discovered that the patch of wheat I sowed is not what actually grew . . . instead, I have a patch of two lookalike weed grasses I keep trying to eliminate. 
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I planted the Gunnera my Mom gave me this morning… anyone know how to tell if it is the edible type? Hehe…
It is on top of a stool in my pond.
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watching the rain finish melting the snow. will be spraying, pruning, planting and grafting by the weekend.
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cutting grass patches out from among my non-weed flowers
opposite land from how the neighbors are going today
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I have been trying to prune all my apple trees and cut them back to being more manageable. A couple of them have gotten way to high to spray properly and get the fruit. I know it is sort of late for that but we had very, very cold temps during the winter. I was not interested in being that cold doing the pruning. We had weeks of sub zero temps.
I also had to buy a new lawn tractor. My old one lasted 25 years. They no longer make parts for it. So I have been mowing grass and getting used to the new lawn tractor. Lots of differences between the old one and the new one. t may take a while to get used to the new one.
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Today i did some hand weeding. Mixed up a big batch of potting mix and used some of it to repot some tiny seedlings that were ready to escape their seed starting tray. Then i filled a seed starting tray and planted a whole batch of Peruvian apple cactus seeds that just came in the mail.
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Yesterday.. I gave up waiting for my BRN mulberry rootstocks to fully leaf out again. They got frosted.. well all leaves got toasted when we had a 38F… the night before our 29F frost.
I was not expecting them to be damaged by 38F.. but it sure took all leaves off. I had them stored in the Garage the next night when we got 29F… but the damage had been done the previous night.
Mulberry leaves are whimps and can get completely wiped by temps several degrees above freezing.
Not only did they get wiped by 38F… But one failed completely to leaf back out.. and the other had just a few buds leaf back out.
I made the decision yesterday to stop waiting on them to recover… and to attempt to root my two Clarks mulberry scions instead.
I am rooting them in promix hp, in black 2 gal pots, outside (as I have done figs successfully before).. one month with no light to the buds.. then I will move them to my back porch where they will get good morning sun.
Hoping for rooting success with Clarks mulberry.
TNHunter
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Did a bunch of bench grafts and put them on a hot pipe. Did a lot of work put in the garden as well. Starting some flower and tomato seeds today.
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I’ve puled almost a whole yard debris bin of dandelions and creeping charlie from the yards. Still got more to do, I yank them as they bloom since that makes them easier to see.
Picked a bunch of violets for violet syrup.
Fertilized all the fruit bushes.
Put up an arch and tomato trellis. Need to get a couple more cattle panels before I can finish that project.
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About to find out. It’s 83°F today, and probably should barely be visiting temps above 70, so I may not make it far. (I prefer it when it’s under 60.) The plan is to relabel and sort the potted stuff that’s been out in the elements all winter. Probably a touch of pruning and a touch of weeding. I’m trying to put off digging out the lawnmover, but these funky weather patterns mean that even I may have to stop ignoring at least parts of my yard. I may find some motivation to plant/depot a couple things if I find motivation at all.
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I will plant some peas today. Also dividing iris.
I need to graft an apple before it warms up again.
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Honeyberries are now flowering and radish and beets are up! Pears are trying to bloom but the temp dropped so they are stalled.
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