witt's Blog

After I did laundry and a teeny-tiny bit of housework, I set out and did what I promised myself that I would do. First, I filled the hole where I got the hydrangea and re-strawed it. Then I started on the strawberry jar. What to put in it? I decided to put ice plant. It can take the heat. I went to The Poison Garden and dug up pieces that were growing amongst the thrift and St. John's wort that's gone crazy. I had to wrestle them out because the grass has gotten in that spot, too. That's where I'm going to dig everything out, rework the soil and start over. I finally got the strawberry jar planted. I seeded the top with my chives seeds. I put some in the other one, too, where I had the garlic chives last year.

Next, my darling hubby was looking for something to do, so he re-staked the eucalyptus that wants to bend over my chair at The Thinking bench. He had some kind of gray PCV. He said that's what Mike used to run the electricity to the chicken pens. After he got that done, I asked him if he had more of that. He sure did. We staked up that jasmine in The Rock Garden. You know, the one that I "dug" up. Well, she back and with a vengeance. Why fight her? We got that done, but of course, I spied more weeds in there. Wasn't it just day before yesterday that I weeded it?

Now, to the job that I didn't want to do. I had to de-leaf the St. John's wort patch on the side of the car-porch. What a mess. I hate that job. No telling what kind of critters are in there. It took forever, but the chickens sure did like it. The leaves are about 2 feet deep. I'm not really done, but I just couldn't bend over again. I'll tidy it up more later.

I happened to spy the pink flowering almond that Mike got for me. It looked TERRIBLE. I had it in the shade by the potting shed, but she ain't happy. I think that he had it in that terrible Miracle-Gro soil. OK. That decided it. I started digging up another section of the new daffodil bed. That ain't easy! Hard as a rock, filled with rocks. I finally got it dug up and mixed in plenty of compost. Who wouldn't want to live there? I got her watered in. Then I spied my two pots on either side of the walkway to the back outhouse. Nothing was coming back. I decided to get some perennial petunias from The Patio Garden in front. There are a bunch coming up, and since it has rained, they were easy to pull up. I put about 5 in each pot. I hope they will grow there. That will be so pretty with the hot pink petunias tumbling down.

After that, it was just sit back and enjoy. That didn't last long because I decided to pull as much of that clover looking thing around the back patio. Where the heck did all of it come from? It's taking over the place. If it's not one kind of weed, it's another.

All in all, it was a productive day.