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Posted: Sep/27/2007 10:09 AM PST
I moved/planted close to 30 plants in the last few weeks! My beds look so much better. Everything hurts on me, but what fun! What have you been up to in the garden? |
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Posted: Sep/27/2007 10:21 AM PST
Good job Sweetle! I'll have to check out your pictures. I've been cleaning up the yard of fading annual and rearranging pots (I think I've finally got the yard just the way I like it!). The last few things I need to finish before fall is in full swing are to plant seeds to overwinter, reorganize some bulb pots, put together a pot of purple plants that I've been brainstorming over, and transplant my latest 2 garden additions - perennial morning glory and bouganvilla. That's actually a lot to accomplish when I write it! I'm never finished in the garden! Pruning, weeding, repotting or new ideas 
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Posted: Sep/27/2007 11:59 AM PST
I am trying desperately to plant some grass in the backyard. Over the years it became moss and weeds. I tried planting some grass seed this spring in part of the lawn. Well... I didn't use starter fertilizer, I used sun/shade mix, when I should have used all shade mix really, and I didn't keep up with the watering. Needless to say, most of it didn't make it. So I've been prepping the lawn--pulling weeds, spreading fertilizer and planting all shade mix grass seed and watering regularly. There has been lawn there in the past, so I know it's possible. I think the fall planting will also likely make it more viable as it won't have to contend with the heat. ... we'll see. Other than that, I have been doing some cleaning up/moving things around, etc.
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Posted: Sep/27/2007 2:13 PM PST
Fall is better for seeding than spring. I overseeded a week ago and the new grass poked through today. |
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Posted: Oct/06/2007 4:01 PM PST
Quote: Originally posted by sweetlebee I moved/planted close to 30 plants in the last few weeks! My beds look so much better. Everything hurts on me, but what fun!What have you been up to in the garden? Nothing. I bought some mums and arranged them on the front steps. My neighbors garden looks gorgeous still and mine looks like hell. 
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Posted: Oct/06/2007 4:06 PM PST
Mo, join the club. If it weren't for marigolds and mums, I'd have nothing in bloom right now...Meanwhile my neighbor across the street has all sorts of flowers coming up that I didn't even know she'd planted! |
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Posted: Oct/06/2007 8:43 PM PST
My aster looks better right now than it did all summer! I have several varieites of sedum that are still showing color, as well as my lavender and Russian Sage. Some annuals are still doing their thing and I have cannas etc, tender bulbs that need to be dug for overwintering, but right now they are trying to bloom. Next week we have cooler weather on hand so maybe it will seem more like fall than summer! We hit 90 degrees today amd that is about 20 degrees over normal! |
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Posted: Oct/08/2007 4:25 AM PST
I've been trimming back overzealous sw. potato vines and nasturtiums - they took over this year! I am rearranging plants along my fence border in front - am just not happy with that area yet...NEXT YEAR! I have another bed in the back yard that is going to need attention next year - I put some sun-loving plants in (hollyhock, lupine) and they are just not doing well. That bed will need some compost over the winter and may some part-sun plants, I don't know. Trying to reassess the gardens before frost cuts everything back - |
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Posted: Oct/08/2007 12:41 PM PST
Gardening and Sports - there is always 'next year'! Thank goodness. LB |
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Posted: Oct/08/2007 2:50 PM PST
AH, I don't even want to go and look, haha...I need to..no...wait...send the kiddo, he likes to pick tomatoes! He does too, the only problem is they are organic so hardly any of them reach the kitchen as he eats them on the way in! Finally got 3 Brandywines (I went and picked them) so my honey and I could have BLT's last night. Need to take down the trellising and recondition the soil for some winter gardening and I know my maters are almost done. |
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