Spent 2 hours cutting dead stuff down (mostly peony foliage), revealing weeds that will have to be pulled another day. Sigh.
Garden chores
A Little Bit of Deadheading
July 31, 2009 – Posted in: Garden chores, Garden TweetsJust deadheaded for 15 min. Long overdue & makes me feel better, even though it's the tip of the iceberg
All Annuals Planted Now
June 28, 2009 – Posted in: Garden chores, Garden TweetsPlanted 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
June 20, 2009 – Posted in: Garden chores, Garden TweetsPlanted 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 the center, so I planted it near the purple smoke bush. But in the accompanying literature it is pictured with [...]
Uncovered my ‘Endless Summer’ hydrangea
June 8, 2009 – Posted in: Garden chores, HydrangeasI 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 them from the erratic spring freezes that we have. The old branches help hold the mulch in place, and I cut them down in the spring when [...]
More Annuals Planted and a Bit of Weeding
June 5, 2009 – Posted in: Garden chores, Garden Tweets, What's up/bloomingPlanted 2 King Tut papyrus and 3 Augusta Blue Skies nierembergia, and weeded the front bed where I put the nierembergia.
Pruning with a Reciprocating Saw
May 12, 2009 – Posted in: Garden chores, Tools and EquipmentCarol's done it. Mary Ann, the Idaho Gardener's done it. So has Mr. McGregor's Daughter and Cindy from My Corner of Katy and M Sinclair Stevens from Zanthan Gardens. They've all used a reciprocating saw to prune woody plants. Not only have they pruned with a recip saw, they raved about how easy it made [...]
Protecting Newly Transplanted Plants
April 28, 2009 – Posted in: Acquisitions, Garden chores, How-toI bought this little Anemone nemorosa at the post-meeting plant sale at the Adirondack Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society in Ithaca, NY last Saturday. After doing a little research, and finding out it likes shade and woodsy soil, I planted it on the shady side of the house on Sunday evening. I [...]
Seedling light stand cleanup
April 18, 2009 – Posted in: Garden chores, Garden Tweets, Seeds and Seed StartingFinished 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 her everything I knew, and she improved upon it. So I just get everything back in order after a winter of [...]
Canna Repotted
April 18, 2009 – Posted in: Garden chores, Garden TweetsRepotted my one and only canna. It was sprouting in the basement.
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