I promised myself I wasn’t going to work myself to death all day, so my Saturday was a little more relaxed than my Friday. I worked the little sand I had left, and six bags of garden soil in, then planted my cosmos seeds. I have Tetra Red, Picotee, Sensation and the Bright Lights I […]
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 […]
Go, Mean Little Birds, go! I’ll put up feeders this weekend, just in case any weary travellers should come my way.
…but something! I pulled a bucketful of fucking dandelions, and was weeding around the lamp post when I decided it needed flowers. I planted dwarf blue bachelor’s buttons, and dwarf red plains coreopsis, since I somehow ended up with a bunch of those. Was going to throw in a few pompon zinnia, but decided there […]
All I did last night was plant some castor bean seeds in cups (also five Bird of Paradise that I didnt bother to soak). This morning, though, I busted my ass and finished the big flowerbed as much as I’m going to for this week. It’s not completed, but it is ready for seeds…whenever I […]
This is harder work than I’d thought; P got me six more bags of dirt, so I’ve got eight, but I’ll be lucky to get this border in place today. Right now, though, I need a little nap! Look–worms! I have lots of worms in my flowerbed now. Eat, burrow and (especially) poop, my little […]
My beloved Mean Little Birds are on their way–not long now! Not long for the flowering crabapple blooms, either. I may not like the too-symmetrical placement, but I love the trees! I ended up keeping the honeysuckle here, at least for the weekend; C. was going away this weekend, and left straight from work. Actually […]
Thirty-four little Lonicera sempervirens plants, all the way from Lakeland, Florida, temporarily potted in plastic cups, packed in a trusty Sumitomo gearmotor box and ready to go wait in C.’s greenhouse until the fence boys do their stuff and I make them a nice place to live along a 6′ high chain link fence in […]
I went on a mission. I took a picture because I’ll be surprised if they’re all there tomorrow morning.
Not many leaves yet, but spread out enough that I’m hopeful. MLBs in southern TN last week, and they’ll be here soon! Go, trumpet honeysuckle, go!!