Been a While Eh?

Ray's Garden has been on an unannounced hiatus for the past month. Those of you reading now, thanks for not abandoning me.

Life for this novice gardener has been a little hectic as of late. Some great changes have been happening in my life which has, unfortunately, kept me from devoting time to this lovely blog of mine. But, never fear for I return with great hope for the future...

The spring is fast approaching. Winter's benumbing weather has begun to break and I now wake to the warming sun. I've begun to see sprouts of grass growing in my yard and my garden is starting to fill with the perennial annoyance of weeds. So, I say to myself, "self, it's time to get back to it".

With that in mind, I've made a weekly goal checklist. My hope is that by the end of the month and beginning of April I will have a fully planted garden ready to start growing.

Sometimes They Don't Make It

I've had to do a little housekeeping with my flower garden. As you can see in the following pictures I've lost a few sunflowers to wind, leaving just a stump behind. 

 Losing these few sunflowers has given me the opportunity rearrange the garden providing more sunlight for those sunflowers which have been dwarfed by the larger ones.

Before:

 After:

I also took the opportunity to trim off the dying and dead leaves at the bottom of the sunflowers. I figure these died off because of a lack of sunlight. As you can see in the pictures, the sunflowers are now less crowded. I'm hoping this will help to ensure the growth of the smaller sunflowers. With any luck they'll catch up and eventually look like this.

Update!!

Right now the garden has been pretty easy going. While I seem to be having trouble in some areas there are others that are coming along very nicely. But, enough from me, take a look for yourself.