Spring Cleaning - Outdoors

The weather outside is delightful so lets get on with spring cleaning our yard. First lets tackle the weeds! It’s always best to weed after a heavy rain. All that is undesirable in your lawn will come up much easier. You will however need some tools to make sure you get all the weed up and out. You don’t need special tools, but if you have them - great. If you don’t - well an old fork will do in most cases so never fear or spend money on things you really don’t need.
I’m focused on wild onion for today. They are all over the place and won’t usually come up out of the ground with just a yank. You’ll need to dig down and leverage the whole complete plant, bulb and all. If you don’t then they will just come back and spread.

Once you have all the plant up what should you do with it? You can eat them but only if you know for absolutely sure that they were never sprayed with lawn or bug chemicals. If you can’t be sure, than throw them away.
Speaking of chemicals....If you get your lawn sprayed for weeds by one of those big lawn care companies (or you get the pest guy to spray your lawn for bugs and ticks) you need to let him/her know what plants in your lawn are edible. Many of our edibles are part of our landscape and I can’t expect a lawn guy to know the difference. So I tie a ribbon around all the plants that we use for food all around the lawn so they won’t get sprayed.

Now is also the time to wash your gardening gloves. You can throw them into the washing machine if they aren’t made out of leather and make sure to add a little bleach. This will make spring so much nicer for you and your manicure.
One more quick thing. Take a jar and filled it with clean fresh water then add some crumbled egg shell to it. Let it stand for a day or two and you’ll have the perfect pick me up for your roses or tomato plants. The calcium in the eggs leach out into the water and the plants drink it like a 5 o’clock cocktail! They will love you for it.

Happy Days Everyone!