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Garden Madness 2008: The Re-Gardening
It's that time of year again.
I really needed to get started on the garden last week (if not sooner, because the peas still aren't in the ground), but work has left me so tired out by the weekend, and the weather last weekend was foul. Anyway, I got up at a reasonable hour this morning, drove out to Mahoney's, and spent about $100 less than I thought I would, which was a pleasant surprise at the cash register.
Purchased: tomatoes (white cherry, Juliet, Mr. Stripey, Jet Girl, Brandywine and ... er, something purple); pickling cucumbers; peppers (jalapeño, Hungarian wax, something sweet and Italian); basil (Italian, Thai, lemon); thyme (English, lemon); Italian parsley; pea seeds; marigolds; a scarlet dahlia; two paper daisies; a six-pack of sky-blue petunias; a white and purple fuchsia; a pale pink Knockout to replace the crappy one Wayside Gardens sent me; a big new ceramic pot for the front, since this winter finally killed the previous pot; a bag of potting soil; and two bags of lobster compost.
I got back early enough that I had plenty of time to actually get some garden prep work done, so![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
columbina convinced me to go turn over the vegetable patch. I am now incredibly sore and can barely move, but I could plant peas tomorrow morning if I wanted. I also planted the garlic chives columbina's boss gave me, as well as the garlic a friend gave me.
It's early enough in the season here that the first azalea to bloom, the Hino, is just now in its full glory. I love this plant.
Plus the tree peony my parents sent us really seems to like where we planted it. I need to spread some mulch around its base, but considering it was a small set of leaves and twigs when we got it, the fact that it looks like this now, less than a month later, feels like a good sign:
Someday, it may look like this. But not just yet.
I really needed to get started on the garden last week (if not sooner, because the peas still aren't in the ground), but work has left me so tired out by the weekend, and the weather last weekend was foul. Anyway, I got up at a reasonable hour this morning, drove out to Mahoney's, and spent about $100 less than I thought I would, which was a pleasant surprise at the cash register.
Purchased: tomatoes (white cherry, Juliet, Mr. Stripey, Jet Girl, Brandywine and ... er, something purple); pickling cucumbers; peppers (jalapeño, Hungarian wax, something sweet and Italian); basil (Italian, Thai, lemon); thyme (English, lemon); Italian parsley; pea seeds; marigolds; a scarlet dahlia; two paper daisies; a six-pack of sky-blue petunias; a white and purple fuchsia; a pale pink Knockout to replace the crappy one Wayside Gardens sent me; a big new ceramic pot for the front, since this winter finally killed the previous pot; a bag of potting soil; and two bags of lobster compost.
I got back early enough that I had plenty of time to actually get some garden prep work done, so
columbina convinced me to go turn over the vegetable patch. I am now incredibly sore and can barely move, but I could plant peas tomorrow morning if I wanted. I also planted the garlic chives columbina's boss gave me, as well as the garlic a friend gave me.It's early enough in the season here that the first azalea to bloom, the Hino, is just now in its full glory. I love this plant.
Plus the tree peony my parents sent us really seems to like where we planted it. I need to spread some mulch around its base, but considering it was a small set of leaves and twigs when we got it, the fact that it looks like this now, less than a month later, feels like a good sign:
Someday, it may look like this. But not just yet.
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