Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening June 2014, 0 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
I may need a Sawzall to divide my Pregnant Onion. It has been 3 or 4 years...
These make a mass of roots like you can't imagine... I'll get my sharpest knife...

Yesterday--I decided to tackle my raised bed --the only bed I have left to put anything in.
Decided to dig it up first--pull out some of the maple roots--the soil was SOOOO
dry throughout! Needed something organic in it...

I pulled out one of the big bags of last year's shredded leaves and sprinkled them
over the bed. Dug it in pretty good and watered the whole bed in.

Now to be "visionary" enough to plant some of my remaining plants, that have been
sitting around, There is a lot of room....

I am growing 3 different vives against the back wall--Blushing Suzy, Cardinal Climber,
and a morning Glory that sprouted on it's own. Don't know which.

This bed already has Cannas planted all along near the back and lots of parsley plants
on the left end. There is also a Baptisa which has yet to bloom. This is year #4.
Hope it does soon--I thought it said it would bloom after 3 years.

Anyway--after the bed was all dug up and amended---I kind of ran out of steam.
I had a fleeting thought that, maybe, I could plant the Amaryllis in there for the season--
but the idea of digging them all up in the fall was not so appealing. I have 7 pots!

Do any of you do this? I know Jill does...How big a deal is it digging them all up???

Have to plant this bed up soon...as the plants have all been more than patient--- waiting..

--Here's the whole raised bed--all dug up. It is 16' long.
--A closer look at the soil...these leaves should help a lot. You may remember
when I had this bed built--the soil that was put in it was pretty crappy. NOT humusy at all.