It rained this morning, and after it finally stopped, I weeded the gravel path. Took out two buckets full, and that’s two buckets mashed down as hard as I could. Lots of crabgrass. Then, I got started on the post holes for the trumpet creeper. The first one wasn’t bad, except that I got rained […]
I’ve been slack about keeping up lately, but I took a couple of vacation days, and it’s raining right now, so I can’t dig the post holes for the trumpet creeper yet anyway, so… I finally got my little butterfly bush in the ground. Bee balm. The taller “Oswego tea” kind. Everything loves this stuff. […]
When I got home, I had two surprises. One, the long-awaited snakeroot was here. Postmarked June 1st, and clearly marked USPS 3-day Priority Mail. Apparently, USPS can neither read a calendar nor count to three. Anyway the plants were quite wilted, but he’d packaged them well, and the roots looked healthy. Second surprise was less […]
Doesn’t look like I did much, but it was so hot that I’m lucky I did anything! I did most of the laundry on Saturday night so I’d have Sunday free to plant the last part of Sarah-Flah’s garden. Sarah’s garden is finished except I’m short a few bags of mulch. I got the trellis […]
Barely, but a start. I got the clips on one post, but it was hot, a mosquito wouldn’t leave me alone, and I need to figure out how to pull it tighter by myself. I did paint just a little to see how it’s going to look. I think it’ll work. The green practically disappears […]
Well, I still have the two dogwood trees, but I finally have all of the perennials in the ground! I still have Virginia snakeroot coming, but its bed is nearly ready (and I have CATERPILLARS–the eggs weren’t all eaten!!!), and I still might get some NE aster, but not much. Anyway, today, I planted five […]
It rained from the time I got home on Friday, all through Saturday (off and on), so I couldn’t plant anything, but I didn’t waste my time! Friday after work, I was tired, but I finally repotted my poor, suffering dieffenbachia Camille. Pot isn’t much larger, but hopefully enough that it will make those big, […]
I’ve worked in the garden for I don’t know how long, never really taking a day off. Every spare minute, I’ve been out there, even when it was really too wet, and I needed a break. I’d planned to plant black-eyed susan and butterfly weed when I got home, but I had to do laundry, […]
I took half a vacation day yesterday; I went to Buchheit at lunch to get the compost I bought and forgot in the shuffle of topsoil, garden soil, mulch and plants. I got a couple more black-eyed susan for Sarah-Flah’s garden, and noticed their trees were 35% off, and they still had red dogwood. C […]
I was supposed to be doing laundry, which I did eventually, but… Planted Autumn Colors rudbeckia and Route 66 coreopsis. Also planted morning glory and Chilean glory vine, and the last of the evening scented stock. Moved the Carolina allspice to fill in the “peekaboo spot” by the woods. Hope it grows like mad and […]