First, the easy part (paid B. to do it). Finally have post holes for Tornado Honeysuckle’s trellis, and the big bird feeder. I’m pretty sure he almost broke through to China, but frost won’t be heaving them anywhere! I’ll get the posts this week, probably, and we’ll do the concrete next weekend.

Next, the bit I didn’t even do; the Mortgage Lifter tomato plant did.

Now for news from the What The Hell Was I Thinking department…

I bought six rose mallow/swamp mallow hibiscus. I needed to sink the round tub I’ve had for ages into the ground to make it a “mini swamp”. I’d been thinking about it one morning last week, and decided I didn’t like all the “plant clutter” that was accumulating around the water garden. I thought I’d join everything into one big bed, remove the grass, add a few more perennials, and mulch the rest. After B. left, I started digging the hole.

Drilled a few small drainage holes about 8″ from the top.

Set it in the ground.

I’d painted a border where I intended to remove grass.

After about 4h of cutting and pulling roots in 86 very humid degrees, I was sweat-soaked and hadn’t got very far. There’s a fuckton of crap-grass, and that shit does not let go easily. I don’t know if I’ll work on it today or not; it’s certainly not going to be cooler, and I need to do laundry and switch out the rest of my clothes. Dunno. I did get a start, though!