I was trying to find out whether I could (carefully) paint glyphosate on the onion grass that grows too close to my flowers’ roots for me to dig it up, and I found the answer, but also found this, which amused me greatly. Lawn? Is another type of soft green plant growing with your grass […]

Another half day today; I came home and finally planted the long-suffering columbine. I made a little bed, and in front of it, I seeded gloriosa daisy, dwarf cosmos, and dwarf bachelor’s button. Phlox looks nice, though I’m considering moving this one to take the place of the one that nearly died and just let […]

I took the afternoon off today and decided to put the edging on my cosmos bed. I’d enlarged and reshaped it a bit one day when it was the only soil not still frozen, but hadn’t finished removing the grass because I wanted rain to rinse off as much soil as possible; the soil down […]

I finally got the waystation sign. Still waiting for habitat, but one down! They must have made this one especially for me…the back is baby pink. We had miniscule borage a couple of days ago. Borage does not dick around! These just miiiiiight be aster…or weeds, but I did plant asters here. I got T […]

It has only a thin layer of mulch because I don’t want to suffocate the seeds, and it still needs its soaker hoses installed (and that’s when I finish the mulch), but everything is planted. Not that I remember what I planted, but that’s why I saved the envelopes and made a list! Seeded: Mulched: […]

In spite of the gummy clay, the gravel, and the nutrient-less sand, and the fact that my tiller quit once because it overheated and the second time because…I don’t know, but it’s broken…I did it. 20 feet long, 9 feet wide, bordered with scalloped concrete edging and tilled/shovelled/forked/whatever it took, and almost ready for seeds. […]

It’s not going to chip branches, but I don’t need it to chip branches; I got it to turn last year’s flowers and butterfly bushes into mulch for this year’s cosmos flowers, and it does that just fine. I ran a couple of last year’s scarlet salvia through just to test. Not nice enough for […]

C picked up a couple of grapevine balls when she was at Hobby Lobby, and I finally remembered to bring them home. I wanted them to make “nest material balls” for the birds. I used 2-4″ pieces cut from dead ornamental grass that grows in front of the house, small sticks I’d broken off last […]

It rained most of the day and poured part of it, so I didn’t plant anything, but it’s warm, and rain doesn’t stop things growing! Lilac, happier in its new spot. Crabapple in full flower. Pokey-ass Grey Sticks are making progress, as is the Cliffie Bush. Hostas that I accidentally threw into the woods, then […]

C let me leave for an hour today to go get my 20 bags of mulch. I’ve bought (I think) 48 bags of mulch, which cost me just under $96, including tax. If I’d paid the regular price, it would’ve come to just under $249. I’m a Sooper Shopper! Anyway, I have mulch. Hopefully enough […]