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I found this little guy a couple weeks ago when I was collecting water for irrigation.

I love the frogs! We are having a cold snap but for the last month, the frogs have been so loud, just roaring, we could hear them inside our very well insulated house. The kids have to name every frog they see in the puddles outside. It's amazing how many names they can come up with. And the frogs are variations of green to brown so the kids insist they recognize certain frogs and remember their names. 😂

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Laurel Jones wrote:

I found this little guy a couple weeks ago when I was collecting water for irrigation.

I love the frogs! We are having a cold snap but for the last month, the frogs have been so loud, just roaring, we could hear them inside our very well insulated house. The kids have to name every frog they see in the puddles outside. It's amazing how many names they can come up with. And the frogs are variations of green to brown so the kids insist they recognize certain frogs and remember their names. 😂

The best part about having a ton of frogs and toads is it means there aren't toxins around. They are ultra sensitive to toxins in their environment. The downside might be the quantities of bugs present to support such a population, but you can decide that for your situations.

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Pearl Sutton wrote:Baby things!
I just took my first spider web across the face for the year, and it was an itty bitty fine line, someone's gone ballooning!
And I saw what had to be a baby Green Treefrog. Something the size of a split pea, bright green, that moved like an amphibian when I poked at it. So tiny!! They climb the windows of the house and eat the bugs who like the lights.

I found this little guy a couple weeks ago when I was collecting water for irrigation.

Oh my! You should give a warning when posting cute frog photos. I will be weeping tears into my keyboard because as an absolute Amphibian lover we have successfully wiped them out almost completely here where I live. But I am optimistic that the newts will be back in my pond.

And our initiative to attract storks by putting up a nesting mast (word?) was successful, it looks like we attracted one couple! Which is even more important as we have the stork as part of our municipal coat of arms. After years of decline we are seeing once again more storks. (when I write "we" I mean our local environmental group)

Also the starlings are fighting over the starlinghouses we put up in our garden, and soon we will hear the chirping of the young ones.
Sandals or barefoot are far in the future, the snow only melted three days ago.

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Baby’s are being born. Antlers are shedding. And bumblebees are buzzing. This makes me very happy.
Thankful for this post! Went through my photos and realized a lot has happened in the last month and half, A lot of good things.

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I've never seen as many violets as we have this spring!

Unfortunately these are dog violets, so not scented. The leaves are edible - not particularly flavourful though.

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...it's that time of year when the weather forecast is running out of colors to described the various severe weather incidences befalling the region... ;-)

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Spring begins today!

Happy Spring Equinox!

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Warming temperatures, and new moon planting! Happy Spring to all..

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Bees, sunshine, blooms…

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My happy for sprig is that my spidey sense id finally telling me we won't get another frost this year, so it is safe to plant thingies.

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chicks at the feed store
can start little plants inside
green grass is growing

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My first 2 honeybees and a wasp visited me as we were doing cuttings of Elderberry and Mulberry with new friends and current student Jae thar loves the hands in part of our School Food Forest at Utah Valley Permaculture Classroom Gardens & Greenhouse. The birds are so happy, Wild Turkey Flock, Deer are all happy here. Thanks Paul for talking about "Amazing 1/4
Acre Cold Temperate Climate Food Forest filmed by John Kohler 45 years ago. Now 9 yrs old, Spring is starting to burst! So exciting!

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Dear people, on what planet do you all live!? Huh?
It's frigging snooowing! Again! Grrrrrr

Of course I'm just joking (not!)

Happy, happy to all who's flowers flower and critters are poking their heads out

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I had three carrots overwinter and I ate one.

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Such a wonderful post!

I have three

1. I think we are darn close to our last frost here in SC— so I gave myself a challenge of planting 4’ x 4’ polyculture plots for 30 days.

What I’m doing; throw some aged wood-chips into a bucket (half full) and some (two handfuls) nearby humus from the woods; add 3-5 types of seeds (roughly 5-30 seeds each); fill with grey water & let soak for 30 minutes, mix and pour.

Then I’m filling a bucket with wood-chips & grey water and adding it to the area.

2. We’re setting up our first ever beehive this week!!!

3. I had planted 150 daffodils around newly-planted fruit trees; 5 of them are blooming & the rest are on their way.

So so grateful. Love you all so much, my family.

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We've had some warm days, some cold days. I'm cleaning up the storm/root cellar for what I think is going to be an active storm season.
Comfort my soul with the 'aptly' named, Robert Frost.

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfil.

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Ela La Salle wrote:Dear people, on what planet do you all live!? Huh?
It's frigging snooowing! Again! Grrrrrr

Of course I'm just joking (not!)
Happy, happy to all who's flowers flower and critters are poking their heads out

Hello Ela!

Here is a little bit of Montana spring!
still in the snow, I can see the springtime shining through the end of winter

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WARMTH...the ability to go outside and sit in the warm sun and soak up that warmth...ahhh..does theses ol' Dragonbones good...and seeing the bees and butterflies waking up and starting to do their thing....

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r ranson wrote:Today it was warm enough to wear sandals without socks for the first time this year.

This makes me happy

Last Octobet I made the heartwrencing decision to move on from running my two allotments (community gardens), but with the dawn of plants coming into bud, I’m celebrating that I’ve managed to transplant nearly all species from the allotments into my back garden - including having successfully rooted fig, juniper and hopefully apple, pear and damson branch cuttings. I’m happy now to be gardening on my own terms without my stuff being ruined, stolen and my attempts at growing as an organic gardener thwarted. I’ve bought all of my ‘wild camping’ essentials meaning I can travel and be even closer to nature. Spring is also signifying my trying to get back into my music practise after coming to terms with having a long-term chronic health condition. Here is a video I made
in my garden accompanied by myself on violin the other day…

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It's interesting that 'Spring' has different meaning in different regions. Everyone knows Spring starts at the equinox, March 21. But on that day the weather is very different in different climate-zones!

For me it's Spring when the buds of trees and shrubs start leafing out. And some trees (some Prunus species) even have blossoms. I LOVE seeing everything slowly become green. Often in Spring often it's rainy, but that helps nature getting green.

"Also, just as you want men to do to you, do the same way to them" (Luke 6:31)

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It's wonderful being down below three feet of snow now that Spring has arrived!

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Christopher Weeks wrote:It's wonderful being down below three feet of snow now that Spring has arrived!

So sweet! I love how winter feeds us all year long!

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I saw a small flower growing in a microclimate a couple of weeks ago but to me it wasn't really spring until I saw the first lizard a few days ago. It is snowing today though.

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Here are the photos.

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For I think the first time in my life, I'm glad for the rain, not only for the obvious reasons, but also for the fact that it tempers my urges to get out there and probably way overdo it, the minute is warm enough that I can get outside. It forces a more gradual reentry into the rigors of the so very physicality of gardening, which with my physical issues, has rather often knocked me on my butt, sometimes to the long term detriment of the very gardens I was pushing so hard to get going.

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This year my spring happys are the trees popping new leaves and 2 mouthfuls of baby mixed lettuce from my raised hugel bed the day after Spring Equinox! Since it rained all night the greens I ate were clean, and in my mouth before I got in the house! I like the concept of eating on the run while walking around the yard.

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Della says she's happy the sun has some warmth. I'm happy we've had two dry days in a row, and I can finally get some of my new trees in the ground.

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Just that feeling that spring is in the air! The snow drifts have dropped from about 9 ft tall to 8 feet, but the cottonwood leaf buds are ready to go! Looks like one more big storm this week and then we hope flooding will be minimal before the green grass emerges again....

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First garden “produce” of the year from various alliums that garnished dinner tonight. Also saw the first butterfly (red admiral).

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I'm happy my garden "weeds" are both purple and edible! We'll be eating them soon, leaves need to get a big bigger before we start picking.

And I am happy that the big warty squash I cut over the winter had a stiff shell and dried nicely, The pieces been installed in good places to be critter houses! Toads and lizards have liked the ones I did before. I think the warty squash makes cool looking garden accents!

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Well it’s autumn here, March being usually a beautiful time of steady weather here in Oz. But reading all these lovely comments from lovely people makes me happy. Just a joy from all the madness

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Pearl Sutton wrote:
And I am happy that the big warty squash I cut over the winter had a stiff shell and dried nicely, The pieces been installed in good places to be critter houses! Toads and lizards have liked the ones I did before. I think the warty squash makes cool looking garden accents!

What a great idea!
It looks like the "pumpkins" Gary brought me as a surprise back last November are just very pumpkin-looking gourds. The one that went bad, with soft spots got stepped on, purposefully, for the flock, and .... the seeds were considered okay, but there wasn't any flesh to it and the rind has dried into lovely lightweight curved pieces.
I'll go move them from their abandoned spot and put them to good work by the strawberry plants that have survived the chickens.

I love spring for the mulberries that are too numerous this year for the chickens to eat all of, the perennials growing like mad, and the fun of seeing what survived the winter and what didn't. I have plant promises to fill as soon as I finish my inventory of what I hoped would survive versus what actually made it. I'm pleasantly thrilled by the herb garden for being full of very tough plants!

The other part of spring is ALL the Babies! I have 20 new chicks to move outside, and two new goslings. I promise I'm trying to get pictures uploaded to pay the baby tax.

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Morel season!

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The dandelion flowers are starting to all open. The yellow colour just shouts that spring is coming. I like to pick them and just munch them as I'm walking round :)

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A note from southeastern Idaho. (I wish people would note their area in their messages. The timing, and challenges of the south texas coast are quite different from, say the Canadian Plains or the intermountain west.)

I went out a few days ago and saw my honeyberries and juliette cherry bushes survived the winter. Major WIN!!! Other survivers were, my juneberry trees, my gooseberry and current bushes, and my linden trees. I wasn't worried about my seaberries, they are tough!

The first year is always a worry, the plants often just limp along that first summer and I wonder if I wasted time and money trying to grow these things.

In a while I'll see if my apples, plums and hazels also survived. I think they wake up a little later.

I've already planted 60 strawberry plants this year, along with more raspberries and a bunch of cold weather garden crops.

Also going into the ground this year, a mess of chinese chestnuts, more apricots, apples, (altogether around 100 tiny trees) grapes, hardy kiwi, mulberries, triple crown blackberries and I can't remember what else right now.

I got one of those flow hives. I'll be driving to Twin Falls, Idaho in a few weeks to pick up my bees. The neighbors bees are very productive here and one of my neighbors bought a flow hive and loves it.

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