dirtdobber's Blog

Well, I had to go back to work yesterday after taking a week off to garden. My friends at work thought I was nuts. They couldn't believe that it could take a week to do a garden. Little do thay know!  EXCEPT.... I didn't get the seeds in. Everything is tilled, the compost has been added. Tilled again, Fence put up, and then the weatherman said it was going to freeze! WHAAAT??? Sooo I'm planning to do that tomorrow after work.

I also dug, tilled etc. a new flower bed that mentioned earlier (my memory bed with plants from my mom and mother in law) Now the fun begins on that one. I also hope to get some of those things transplanted in the next two days.

I also bought a few little things to go in the large flower bed that was already here when we moved last summer but is pretty empty. I put in some phlox, dianthus, creeping phlox and threw in a few impatiens. I have iris buds everywhere. I really did not think I'd get any blooms this year b/c of moving them from the old house, but I was wrong. Yaaay!! I added a bunch of grass clippings and some mulched up pinestraw to my compost pile. I planted a couple of clematis bulbs...I know its late, but they were 1/2 price. We will see how they do. My morning glories are coming on up. I have noticed a few leaves on my blueberry bushes that look like they have been munched on. Any suggestions anyone? Don't know a thing about growing those. These are my 1st.

And I saved the best for last. Being new in the neighborhood, we really don't know many people on the street. Have met most of them, but that is about it. Well, one neighbor and her husband were out working in their yard the other day and I just walked over to speak...ya know..being neighborly ..that southern thing. Well, as it turns out, he is a landscape architect and she works with him! They adore flowers and working in their yard. They took me on a tour of their yard all around to the back. You people would not believe how pretty it all was. Seeing just the front yard from the road does not do it justice! Every kind of flower you can think of is in their garden. And I don't mean they have someone to come "put in the flower beds". They did all this on their hands and knees...the 2 of them. they were so fun to talk with. They have a veggie garden and fruit trees and a greenhouse, but I didn't even get that far back into the yard. Will save that for next trip. She gave me some places to get seeds etc in the mail and from some individuals she knew of. What a nice ending to my week. She even has some kind of flower I had never heard of that she is going to pot up up for me.

It sure was fun to just wake up everyday and go to bed every night thinking and planning my "stuff". And knowing that all I really HAD to do was go out and do it. I could get used to that! Even though I didn't get everything done that I wanted to do, isn't that what gardening is all about? There is ALWAYS something else you want to do!

I know this was long, but I just had to share my wonderful relaxing week in the dirt with my fellow dirt lovers! Now back to the alarm clock and "saving lives" :) Trish