No dirt work today; all I did was plant the three tomatoes, and add some zinnia (leftover ‘Lilliput’ to the spots where wild-type sunflower couldn’t be arsed to grow. That’s my last try with that stuff because it never grows worth a good goddamn. Anyway…

Heirloom tomatoes grown right from seed by C. Three varieties: Mortgage Lifter, Delicious, and Porterhouse. I’ll get them cages this week; I haven’t left the property since Thursday after work. They’ll get 11-12h of sun every day, and if the Lawn Nazi doesn’t like my growing food on the south side of my house, he can suck my big…roots. Hehe.

Had leftovers from the 1/4 pound of zinnia I bought for the fence flowerbed, so I overseeded in what P. has dubbed the Robin’s Roost (because robins love to sit there and watch for worms and bugs).

I can’t think of what these round-ish leafed things are (in the Wildflower Seed Floor Sweepings freebies I got), but they’re really familiar. EDIT: Ah, crap. I think it’s some variety of nasturtium, in which case, they’ll die because nasturtium can’t handle the summer heat here (voice of experience). Sucks, too, since they’re one of my favourite flowers.

Spicebush is looking well; I think I can remove the flags now because P. isn’t likely to mow it.

In sucky news, I think one of my native yellow honeysuckle died. 🙁 In potentially awesome news, I think the Virginia Snakeroot I planted last fall that was dug up by squirrels and frozen to death after being planted in crappy soil to begin with…didn’t! I can’t swear to it, but these heart-shaped leaves look a lot like snakeroot to me!

I broke one, thinking automatically that it was a weed, but I quickly put Miracle Grow soil down so I won’t do it again.

I also put mulch around the butterfly bushes where I’d done all that crap-grass weeding on Friday. First time buying coloured mulch, and my last. I knew it was dyed, but didn’t kniw until today (after I put it down) that it’s made from scrap wood, which could be anything, including woods treated with chemicals potentially harmful to worms and insects. Maybe even plants (but I read that on a “green blog”, so I take it with a grain of salt because rabid greenies have an agenda that makes them overreact sometimes). Anyway, I’ll use the little that’s left, but won’t buy it again.