garden chores

Gardening Chores,

If you are given the option of choosing one of these three gardening chores,which one would it be? #1-weeding(by hand) #2-raking #3-mowing(push mower) I would choose weeding, because I would be...

Planting Tulips, Part 2

Yesterday I told you how I finally realized species tulips planted in the peony bed would help to bridge the bloom gap of late spring. I got the tulips chosen and purchased, and now I’m going...

One Chore Begets Another

Spent 2 hours cutting dead stuff down (mostly peony foliage), revealing weeds that will have to be pulled another day. Sigh.

A Little Bit of Deadheading

Just deadheaded for 15 min. Long overdue & makes me feel better, even though it’s the tip of the iceberg

All Annuals Planted Now

Planted 6 Henna coleus and the last 2 Mint Mocha coleus and Midnight Lace vine. All annuals finally in the ground. Weeding next.

Planting Coreopis and Rearranged Heucheras

Planted Redshift coreopsis and rearranged some heucheras last night and weeded here and there. The coreopsis is a trial plant from Skagit Gardens. On the tag it looks like it has a maroon ring around...

More Annuals Planted and a Bit of Weeding

Planted 2 King Tut papyrus and 3 Augusta Blue Skies nierembergia, and weeded the front bed where I put the nierembergia.

Uncovered my ‘Endless Summer’ hydrangea

I finally uncovered my ‘Endless Summer’ and ‘Forever&Ever’ hydrangeas. I had discovered that dumping a bunch of dry leaves over them in the fall was sufficient to protect...

Seedling light stand cleanup

Finished reorganizing the seed stand. Culled all the broken flats. Organized the cell packs. All this for the master seed starter, not me. My eldest daughter does most of the seed starting. I taught...

Canna Repotted

Repotted my one and only canna. It was sprouting in the basement.

Fed My Roses

Put alfalfa pellets around my 3 roses today. I can’t even remember when I bought the alfalfa. Pee-yoo!