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Entry for May 14, 2007
May 14, 2007 | 11:01 PM PST
Tags: weeding , corsican mint , groundcover , mulch

Took the cultivator out and did some weeding around the veggies tonight after I mowed my grandfather's grass.  That's all I got done outside, but inside looks quite a bit tidier.

The Corsican Mint I bought the other day is for an experiment with live mulch.  Could've sworn the label at the greenhouse said it liked full sun, but the reading I've done online since says it prefers at least a little bit of shade.  I suppose we shall see.  I bought it to put in the veggie beds, so I could allow it to fill in and form a solid mat of "mulch", but the veggie beds are most certainly full sun.

Hopefully I'll have time to go put it in tomorrow.

Entry for May 12, 2007
May 14, 2007 | 10:40 PM PST
Tags: mr k , peppers , blueberry , azalea , primrose , sedum , corsican mint , horseradish , chives , variegated peppermint , bamboo windchimes , zen garden

So Mr K got home on Saturday and off we went to Peppers.  I *love* that place.  They don't accept plastic, and every time we go we end up spending every last dime we have on us, and sometimes we have to go to the grocery store a few miles down the road and get more.

This time we came home with 2 blueberry bushes (a Mother's Day gift for my mother), 2 magenta colored azaleas, 2 evening primroses, a black pine, 3 pots of Dragon's Blood sedum, a dozen pots of Corsican Mint, a pot of horseradish, two pots of chives, [to be edited when I get home and can look at the pile].  Oh, and a huge set of bamboo wind chimes.  I have a weakness for bamboo wind chimes.

He set to work planting things as soon as we got home, while I ran back out to Lowe's to fetch him some more cedar mulch.  I picked up 3 more trowels, too, since it seems like I'm always looking for one.

The black pine went in over where the Zen garden will be.  They're such slow growers, we figured we may as well go ahead and get it in now, with a nice healthy dose of compost, and get it growing.  His mother used to have two of them out in her front yard, but she didn't like the way they looked and chopped them down.  I haven't been over to see what else he put in over there, but when I dropped off the mulch, he had about a 6' diameter vaguely circle-ish area cleared of sod.

It's too bad he got home so late, we ran out of light not too long after we got home.

First mosquito bite of the season tonight.