I kept saying it was too much work for one person, and between the goddamned crabgrass and the clover rooted in the earth’s core, it was, but I by god did it myself! My flowerbed is 20′ long by 9′ wide; it was going to be 10′, but I wanted to make sure there was […]
Warm today, and sunny, but only about 60, so not too hot to be digging and uprooting grass, which is what I’m doing. Before that, though, this one is from yesterday, post-thunderstorm with wind. D is lucky he has a roof; this Osage orange didn’t miss by more than a few feet. In better news […]
It rained off and on a little today, but was clear at 4, so I rushed home to start laundry and get something planted in the little corner of the Bee Happy bed that I didn’t have time for yesterday. It was close; it started to rain about 10 minutes after I’d planted the red […]
Today, I left at lunch to pick up the 8 remaining bags of mulch. I bought 4 more, and a flat of pink annual salvia fell into my cart. They had red, but it grows too tall, I think. If it’s coccinea, it does…I’ll have to check. I came home, scarfed leftover pizza, then went […]
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 […]