Weekend of May 5th (front corner bed)
This is all perennials now, a lot of iris and Bee Balm in here. For the next few weeks it will be mostly purple until the ajuga and lilac are done. The chairs are very comfortable, though you do have to sit up to toast marshmallows. Life is rough in this corner.Weekend of May 12th (front of the house)
This is where I grow my best rocks and thistles (see that pile? That's this year's rock crop. The frost moves them toward the surface and every year there's more.)We need to figure out the landscaping here. I took a picture of the front of the house and have started scribbling on it to figure out what needs to go where. In the meantime, I have once again planted pumpkins in here. Seriously. They have big beautifull foliage and can grow in even rotten soil. The strong roots break through clay like nobody's business and in October, I don't have to fork over $30 or more for jack-o-lanterns.
Weekend of May 19th (Daff/Hosta bed)
This was the first garden I planted here. 200 daffodils, 100 tulips, and grape hyacinths. The squirrels made short work of the tulips, but nothing eats daffodils and scilla so those remain. There are at least 8 different hosta varieties in here now, and 3 or 4 different astilbes. We'll see how it looks in a few weeks when the daffs die back.This weekend (vegetable plot)
This has been neglected for a few years and was weed choked and packed clay. This was the first spading this bed has had in a long while, it needs to be turned again, and have the manure I bought dug through. I've been shopping for a rototiller. I've got onions, corn, beans, more lettuce, sweet peppers, jalapenos, and tomatoes to squeeze into there.Along the right side is my raised cold box (with baby lettuces, spinach, and two plantings of carrots) and behind that are strawberries. There's a rhubarb poking up at the end of the strawberry patch (where better?) and raspberries beyond the edge of the left side of the picture. They still need pruning.
So this has been my weekends for the past month. Starting next week, I cycle them again, just to keep the weeds in check. It's always something.
3 comments:
Thank you, thank you!!! Your work is neverending, but very appreciated.
Can't wait to see the pumpkin foliage. I would suspect it's kind of like big zucchini leaves?
I really notice the lush green-ness of your property...now that I don't have ANY green. I own the largest tree in the subdivision according to Google Earth, lol.
Whew! Dassalodda work.
Each weekend has been at least 3 1/2 hours solid, usually closer to 7. It's a lot of work, but I like the way it looks when it's done. Everything needs mulch, though, or it's the same hard work all over again.
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