Garden stuff
Mar. 18th, 2014 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillIt has been a while since I posted. I transplanted the daffodils about a week ago; they aren't blooming or anything but they don't seem to be drooping either, so perhaps they are happy.
Last Saturday Kip and I went to Lowes and bought a pear tree, a bunch of mulch, twelve pansy sprouts and a package of batchelor button seeds and a package of impatiens seeds. The impatiens will theoretically grow on the north side of the house, where the daffodils weren't getting enough light to bloom. The tree got planted in the front yard; our lineup there is now peach, plum, pear, cherry. The pansies got planted around the sprouting daffodils in the box around the front porch. I have three leftover pansies I could plant around the pear tree. The bachelor's button got sprinkled in the box with the pansies and also around the bases of the peach, plum, and cherry trees. I have yet to plant the impatiens.
Also today I moved a bunch of daylillies out of their big plastic box into mounds of topsoil in the back yard. We will see if they like that. The big plastic box got a refill of topsoil because the daylillies were only just sprouting but had grown enough root to take a lot of soil with them, and then more daylilly bulbs got tucked in there in the soft black dirt. I didn't know which way was up on the bulbs so I planted them sideways. It might be totally the wrong time to plant them and they might die, but I figured if I didn't plant them now they'd surely die, so it was worth a try.
My garden doesn't look like much because it is all like this--a few hours effort when it occurs to me and I feel like it. But some of the flowers and stuff have looked pretty nice anyway. And I have three live trees in the front yard and a fourth that very well might live.
Last Saturday Kip and I went to Lowes and bought a pear tree, a bunch of mulch, twelve pansy sprouts and a package of batchelor button seeds and a package of impatiens seeds. The impatiens will theoretically grow on the north side of the house, where the daffodils weren't getting enough light to bloom. The tree got planted in the front yard; our lineup there is now peach, plum, pear, cherry. The pansies got planted around the sprouting daffodils in the box around the front porch. I have three leftover pansies I could plant around the pear tree. The bachelor's button got sprinkled in the box with the pansies and also around the bases of the peach, plum, and cherry trees. I have yet to plant the impatiens.
Also today I moved a bunch of daylillies out of their big plastic box into mounds of topsoil in the back yard. We will see if they like that. The big plastic box got a refill of topsoil because the daylillies were only just sprouting but had grown enough root to take a lot of soil with them, and then more daylilly bulbs got tucked in there in the soft black dirt. I didn't know which way was up on the bulbs so I planted them sideways. It might be totally the wrong time to plant them and they might die, but I figured if I didn't plant them now they'd surely die, so it was worth a try.
My garden doesn't look like much because it is all like this--a few hours effort when it occurs to me and I feel like it. But some of the flowers and stuff have looked pretty nice anyway. And I have three live trees in the front yard and a fourth that very well might live.
