Colorful Garden Chat Picture Thread

No, it doesn't, worm poop is great fertilizer. The grass doesn't like it when you stomp on such piles while they're wet. So don't walk over them as long as everything is wet. When it's dried, then you can spread it, the grass will be happy too. Otherwise, make the soil more permeable, aerate it and occasionally add a layer of sand on top, exactly. Then they disappear again into deeper soil layers.

How are your gardens doing? Early bloomers are already popping up everywhere here – of course, snowdrops, but unfortunately also tulips and daffodils are already stretching their heads out about 5cm. It’s so incredibly warm, which is anything but funny. Some plants are starting to develop buds and my harlequin willow has even begun to sprout. Oh, and the grass is already growing too. It gets cold occasionally in between, but just a few warm days are enough for the bulb plants and they start to sprout.

Otherwise, I went through with it. In the fall, no raking of leaves, no cutting of perennials, nothing at all. The deadwood pile in the back seems to be inhabited; at least a few logs were slightly askew. Only the strawberries, roses, and hydrangeas received winter protection with bark mulch or fir, but otherwise, I left everything natural.

ZIP code 33 Here, fortunately, nothing is stirring yet - at least I haven’t seen anything. It is indeed too warm, but there is a lack of sun here to warm the soil. Only the Calendula has been blooming continuously since autumn... It has rained so much here, yet it is still too little, really sad, I am curious about the summer. We certainly don’t have much life yet - more than the lawn desert neighbors who don’t even have perennials, but after just under a year, the hedge is still too patchy for hedgehogs and birds.

That will come. Patience. Gardening is also patience. We have now pruned tree and bush to encourage them to become dense at the bottom, for wind and privacy protection. Normally, you don't do that in January so that frost doesn't penetrate the fresh cuts. But no frost is in sight. So what. Grass grows too. but I am not mowing. Lots and lots of rain, in SH the water balance in the soil is back to normal.

The onions are growing here, they are already sticking out about 5cm... But I fear that a severe frost will come at the end of January.