Since the seeds probably aren’t any good, I just stuck them here and there. Didn’t bother with photos because it looks like…dirt. Anyway, fingers crossed, but I’m not hopeful. I’ll try to do the rest tomorrow. HK will hold 12 bags of mulch, 2 cubic foot. I know because I bought 20. On sale for […]
Left at lunch again today, planted for almost six hours. I’ll caption these later; too busy being dead right now. Three lavender, four oregano, forty crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ about ten(ish) crocosmia ‘Montbretia’, three purple salvia, and a little clump of red bee balm that may or may not live. I moved a bunch of evening primrose […]
Maybe a little mould, but maybe not. Anyway, I’d put it in cold stratification on 21-02-15, and sprinkled it around the edges in the area where I planted the new common milkweed on 29-03-15. The goddamned cats will dig it up, but I have neither the time nor the energy to cover it all with […]
When I dug him up, he was covered with mud, and I thought he was a toad, but nope. ..grey tree frog. Cleaned out and expanded (a bit) the cosmos bed. I left the grass to freeze tonight; I want the dirt on the roots. Milkweed bed is ready for seed; I worked in two […]
I went to Buchheit at lunch for bone meal for the lavender. I got that, plus blood meal, a soil scoop (finally!) and…a Garden Weasel, which will henceforth and forever be know as a Mindy-Weedel because…because Dad. Anyway, it’ll be much too cold to plant anything this weekend, but not too cold to prepare the […]
I was too tired to post these yesterday, but I wanted to document before Saturday’s 21F night temperature )and the 30F and 31F that bracket it) kill everything before it really gets a chance to start. Clematis doesn’t seem too upset at being moved. In fairness to me, I did just haul it out, dirt […]
Not winter, but not time to set plants out yet, either. Anyway, that didn’t stop me from preparing, and it doesn’t stop my houseplants, either. Preparing for hot, probably dry summer…two 50′ soaker hoses. I’ll need more, but these for now. Still nothing from the Nicolai, but I actually have two little Reginae sprouts! My […]
I went at lunch and bought six bags of garden soil because it’s going to rain the next few days, and it’s certainly not going to get any drier. I had someone load it, and I’m glad I did because it’s wet. I needed it out of HK, so sore from two days of uprooting […]
I finished expanding the milkweed bed yesterday, and today, I did the southwest corner bed! I’m probably going to be crippled for the next three days, but I made a place for the crocosmia I bought on Friday, and room for other stuff, too! I’m going to rearrange the evening primrose that’s already there, and […]
When it comes to Monarch baby food, it is! I started enlarging the milkweed bed on Monday when I planted the common milkweed I’d bought, and I made up my mind to finish it today. It nearly killed me, but it’s 12″-18″ wider, and the perimeter measures about 38’6″ because I had about 18″ left […]