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 […]

First, the bulbs. I went to Walmart after work yesterday to get edging, and accidentally found crocosmia bulbs that turned out to be Lucifer after I scanned the QR code, and blazing star, since I doubt mine survived the winter. Nice-looking bulbs, 20 pack for $5.38. I got two bags of crocosmia and one blazing […]

Just one so far, and very small. I was too tired to post this last night.

C said it was fine for me to leave at lunchtime, and it was such a beautiful day that I did! I didn’t get it completely finished because…because crabgrass, but I extended the milkweed bed enough to put in the plants that I’d bought last month. I even had help. Of course, my “help” kept […]

Yesterday, I made a little shade bed and planted the Dutchman’s Breeches and Squirrel Corn. This morning, I put the dwarf larkspur in with them. Then, I put the cranesbill (wild geranium) in the “blank” spot I had left the last time I was flower farmin’. I forked/raked back the straw and leaves to see […]

I levelled out some of the piles I’d put by the creek last July 4th, and got some composted cow manure at Buchheit today,  so I planted the squirrel corn and Dutchman’s Breeches.  Tomorrow,  I’ll plant the larkspur with them, and the wild petunia in the blank space that I left the last time it […]

First, P got a flat tire as he drove into the carport after work last night then after he got it fixed and headed to work this morning, his fuel pump died on the interstate. D rescued him and MB, and he took my car to get to work. I had no car today, which […]