I started at 0700h, had a half hour “breakfast” break at 1100h, and brought my tools in at 1457h. I cut back a bunch of honeysuckle, poisoned some of it, raked debris, amended clay soil with garden soil and cow poop compost,  planted and mulched elderberry, made a bed for and planted foxglove and a few columbine seeds, and covered the bed with the row cover I’d had on the milkweed (which is juuuuust starting to root). I’m dead tired, but accomplished enough that it was worth taking the day off work.

Elderberry cuttings.

I planted them in groups because I’m betting some will simply die. If not, I can always move them.

I was so goddamned glad to finish this bed (clay, roots, argh) that I forgot to take a picture before I covered it, but there was a lot of clay here, so I added a little sand along with the garden soil and compost. The seeds are so tiny that I just sprinkled them on and watered them in. Anyway, it won’t do much this year because foxglove is biennial and columbine needs cold stratification, but it exists, so I’m satisfied.

I also found Wormzilla. I’m not sure whether this thing was eating organic matter or Tokyo, but it was huge!

Back yard as it was when I finished. Too tired to bother making a pano.

I even went out after a nap and dug half a bucket of the never-ending dandelions. Go, me!