trudy's Blog

We got rain
May 13, 2007 | 4:13 PM PST
Tags: rain , crunchy , roses , tuber rose , chamomile , lillies , Spirea , Hydrangea , Spanish , Red 7 Sister , mators , cucumber , heat , raised beds Brugs , Sage

finally last night,  what a relief!!  It had gotten so dry the weeds I call grass was crunchy.   Since my last entry I've planted a few more things,  a couple roses, tuber rose an more chamomile.  A plant I'm not real familiar with called Pet????? Saxifrigara or something like that.  Will be interesting to see how it does down here in the heat.  Some of my Asiatic Lillies are blooming or full of buds.  Several daylillies are blooming, my Spanish Flag Vine, Red 7 Sister rose, Duranta, Anthony Waters Spirea, The Lady in Red Hydrangea is trying to bloom.  Can't wait to see that one seeing how I rooted it from a friends that had already bloom right b4 winter.  

 I got about 3 Brugs planted to replace some that didn't make it over the winter, 3 Pineapple Sage herbs an finished up with planting the rest of the tomatoes.  Took an potted up some Monsieour Tillier cuttings that had rooted that I should have already done.  Still have others to do, just finding time in all my spare time to do it.  Picked a handful of strawberries, which of course got eatten right away.  Spend some time with my DD's an a couple grandsons, was a pleasant day.  Now just to finish up watering the veggies,  you'd think they wouldn't need any, but being in raised beds I have to think about the heat tomorrow and they won't get any water til late tomorrow afternoon.  But I do have mators,  even picked a cucumber for my salad today for lunch.    Man was it good!   trudy
 

Got warm out today
Apr 8, 2007 | 3:11 PM PST
Tags: squash , tomatoe , compost , foxglove , Hydrangea , storm

I added some of the compost to the bed I was gonna plant the yellow squash in, planted all the squash which I hadn't planned on planting that many. Ole well, what I don't want I'll give away (I hope). Still have lots of other stuff to plant. I did get the "Black" tomatoe bed planted. Still have 1 full bed I can plant in, so plan to plant it full of melons. Just gonna amend the soil first, just to tired this afternoon and still had supper to cook. I make myself stop around 6 so I won't be so late getting outta the kitchen. But I got a tray of Pupura Foxglove and a Mixed of colors of Foxglove planted near the pond area. 2 Red Stem Hydrandreas planted that I rooted from a friend of mines mother plant. If I could ever figure out how to post pics I'll add some. Its suppose to storm here for the next couple of days, one reason I wanted to get as much planted as I could. trudy