finally!

[piranha]

this whole week has been sodden with rain, with only a few short breaks.  so today was the first day since the paramour left that i had opportunity to get my new plants into the ground.  i took the baby's breath out of the raised bed in front because it gets way too big anyway.  i am not 100% sure where to put it yet.  in its place i put yellow snapdragons for the paramour, and around the edge, as usual, blue petunias -- this year with a lacey pattern.

and i whacked the backyard -- a few weeks of rain and sun, and the grass and weeds had grown quite high.   tomorrow i'll turn the area for the tomatoes a last time and plant them.   i bought too many though, so i need to dig up a spot that i had let grow back over last year, or keep them in planters.  except that i want to get away from planters.  and i need extra space anyway, for peppers and extra herbs.  the cucumbers can use the fence.  i am late with the peas again, *sigh*.

soon i'll move the compost pile; the new place for it is mostly prepped, except for, of course, the last of the blackberry roots (sprouting madly already).  this will be the year when most of the backbreaking labour is done, and i'll be able to enjoy the garden a lot more.

i miss my computer.  on saturday the paramour gets back and then we can go hardware shopping! 

i need a gardening icon that does not imply i am a vegetable.

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[dr-brat.livejournal.com]

I'm late with the tomatoes this year, but it's been such a weird, rainy season that there really hasn't been a chance. I took the salt hay that had been protecting the roses and spread it around the flower beds as mulch. I didn't have enough to do every spot, so there's a 4 foot stretch along the neighbor's fence that didn't get mulched and, boy, is it obvious. The salt hay is keeping the weeds down everywhere else, but I need to get out and weed that spot.

Cash thoughtfully brought me one of the rosebushes last week. Monster. He's a good boy, except he likes to pull up my roses. Can't figure that one out. Luckily, he leaves the established ones alone, but I had put in 4 new ones last year and he destroyed 2 of them.

One of my day lilies, Apricot, is blooming. The others don't even have scapes yet. The tulips and daffodils have gone by and the irises are starting. I had forgotten that I had moved a bunch of the older ones last year so that I could put new ones in the beds where I knew they'd thrive. It's been a surprise to see what blooms where.