In spite of the fact that I forgot about laundry on Friday (seriously–forgot!) and have two shirts left from being exhausted and crippled last week, I still planted the main flowerbed! It just needed to be raked, seeded, little compost thrown on and cat poop-proofed, so I’m not horribly far behind, and it’s done! Looks […]

I promised myself I wasn’t going to work myself to death all day, so my Saturday was a little more relaxed than my Friday. I worked the little sand I had left, and six bags of garden soil in, then planted my cosmos seeds. I have Tetra Red, Picotee, Sensation and the Bright Lights I […]

I started at 0700h, had a half hour “breakfast” break at 1100h, and brought my tools in at 1457h. I cut back a bunch of honeysuckle, poisoned some of it, raked debris, amended clay soil with garden soil and cow poop compost,  planted and mulched elderberry, made a bed for and planted foxglove and a […]

Go, Mean Little Birds, go! I’ll put up feeders this weekend, just in case any weary travellers should come my way.

…but something! I pulled a bucketful of fucking dandelions, and was weeding around the lamp post when I decided it needed flowers. I planted dwarf blue bachelor’s buttons, and dwarf red plains coreopsis, since I somehow ended up with a bunch of those. Was going to throw in a few pompon zinnia, but decided there […]

All I did last night was plant some castor bean seeds in cups (also five Bird of Paradise that I didnt bother to soak). This morning, though, I busted my ass and finished the big flowerbed as much as I’m going to for this week. It’s not completed, but it is ready for seeds…whenever I […]

This is harder work than I’d thought; P got me six more bags of dirt, so I’ve got eight, but I’ll be lucky to get this border in place today. Right now, though, I need a little nap! Look–worms! I have lots of worms in my flowerbed now. Eat, burrow and (especially) poop, my little […]

My beloved Mean Little Birds are on their way–not long now! Not long for the flowering crabapple blooms, either. I may not like the too-symmetrical placement, but I love the trees! I ended up keeping the honeysuckle here, at least for the weekend; C. was going away this weekend, and left straight from work. Actually […]

Thirty-four little Lonicera sempervirens plants, all the way from Lakeland, Florida, temporarily potted in plastic cups, packed in a trusty Sumitomo gearmotor box and ready to go wait in C.’s greenhouse until the fence boys do their stuff and I make them a nice place to live along a 6′ high chain link fence in […]

I went on a mission. I took a picture because I’ll be surprised if they’re all there tomorrow morning.