Gah! I can hardly believe it is April, let alone the END of April and about to be May. This month has really just flown by. Good news though, on Monday I did some gardening. Serious actual gardening with my rake and gloves and everything. Things I learned:
- It's true that leaving leaves to decompose on your garden area will give you some nice soil to work with. At least it looked nice to me, who knows if it will actually grow anything.
- I dug up something that I did not want to see. I expected worms, but this was no worm. It was icky, alien and looked like it was still growing or something. It was definitely in a pupae stage. I nearly puked. I put a rock on top of it and tried to move on.
- I realized that the area I want to put my garden in is going to be pretty hard to clear. It might take awhile.
- I think I have the spot for the delphiniums all ready to go!
- I am not sure my tulips are even going to bloom this year. Between the late snow and the rabbits, I haven't seen much tulip activity.
- I went back and put another rock on the icky thing.
- I am going to need to buy a shovel.
- I wish I was wealthy enough to hire a landscaping company to design and then care for my yard. I really would be fine with that.
- I went to go and clean out the little planter I have on the deck for some pansies or geraniums. I figured there wouldn't be anything icky in there.
- I filled up a bag of yard crap and figured that was enough for one day.
7 comments:
You'll want two shovels: a spade (the kind that comes to a point), and a rock shovel (with a flat blade). My rock shovel doubles as an ice-chipper during the winter.
Yay delphinium! And good for you — that sounds like a good day's gardening. And putting a rock on the gross thing (and then going back and adding another one just in case) is totally how I would've dealt with it too. :-)
I totally failed at growing tulips. The few that did manage to bloom despite me doing everything wrong immediately had their heads bitten off by rabbits or squirrels. (Why do they *do* that? They don't even eat them, just bite the flower off, like they're offended by its existence. Grr.)
re: flower heads being bitten off
The deer would do that to my lilies too. So irritating. Good fun for the neighbors though, cuz there is certainly nothing like watching a crazed woman running out of the house yelling at deer that has just mowed down her precious flower bed.
I giggled at the second rock on the icky thing. Then I realized that I would have been torn with whether or not to turn my back on it while outside... And that made me giggle at myself, too.
Sounds like fun. I've been watching my hostas come up from the kitchen. I can't wait for my sling so I can get out and see what else is popping up. Fresh air should be good for the Sprout and I.
Oh, and totally good job on the icky thing. I had slugs in my garden in NY. Freaked me the heck out the first time. Then I discovered salt.
Great tip for slugs: dig a small container of cheap beer into the ground. They'll be drawn to the sweetness and drown in it.
Hey, by the way, aren't you due some birthday wishes from this weekend? or am I mistaken?
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