kerryh's Blog

Just a few words
Jun 22, 2008 | 8:21 PM PST
Tag: compost

I don't spend a lot of time inside in the summer except to do my "wifely " duties. I tell anyone that comes for a visit if you want to see  my house in order come in the winter time LOL.

I think every thing has started to grow ...finally. Had to move a few plants. That last freaky  snow storm we had a few weeks ago, broke of some major branches, plants that were in the shade are now in full sun. My begonia's were drying out so I moved them to the back yard, the next morning after a night in the cool wet soil  there leaves were plump and the flower heads were looking up again. I am going to miss that one branch on the pear tree, it shaded my living room. Oh well, to every thing there is a season. 

With the gas prices the way they are, we are not planing any trips this summer so I went a little nuts at the nursery this spring. Any old excuse will do !!!

  June 29/08     I have the west  side of the house to paint and then I am going to the plant the area between the  house and the neighbors. We have used that area to park Bubba the  camping bus and the hunting rigs. It is horrible dirt so I have been adding compost and working the soil since April. It is going to be my little mountain meadow, It will be years before it completely fills in because my favorite thing about gardening is watching the plants grow , so I buy little plants. The  two Quaking Aspen I bought were only 3ft tall. They were so cute. LOL.

  I'm  going to put a dry creek bed in, with a lot of evergreens and wildflowers. I put in 3 Bitter Sweet, and one honey suckle vine to climb on the chain link fence . I don't  know anything about Bittersweet. I'm not too sure if they even  will grow in MT. But will see. If they don't make it thur the winter  I will replace them with Englemens Ivy ,that is a awesome vine.

   I got  two little Ponderosa Pine and snow on the mountain over the weekend. I think I am done planting till fall it is so hot between the houses, I thought I would stoke out placing rocks today.     I am getting up at 5 and paint . I can't place any more rocks till I do that.

The front of the house is filling in nice, Jim put up the arbor for me yesterday. He said, "Are you done yet"? LOL Never is a gardener done LOL

When we built the garage I lost my little veggie spot as well as the berry garden, so I dumped a wheel barrel full of almost cooked compost on the  lawn!!! I planted squash, I swear compost will grow anything. LOL

  I think because the compost was not completly cooked it was warm enough that when we got that last snow storm the plants never got set back. How cool was that ?

Happy Planting Kerryh