Northeast Gardening: Garden Projects #11, 2 by nutsfordaylily

nutsfordaylily wrote:
Thanks Jo, Patti and Marilyn. I'm posting more pics of my back sales area, a before and after shot this time.

We can have open burn piles from Jan. 15 to May 1 here, and we also need a permit, but in the summer we can burn in a contained burn pit, campfire type burning, no bonfires. We just call the fire dept. the day we want to burn and they will let us know if we can. We always have it bigger than it should be.

Mittsy, you're past peak? How? Looks like there are lots of leaves to turn yet. Are you talking about the maples?

Nice pics, Patti. I have never seen that orange plant, either. Very nice.

I am so ADD about yard work (I actually do have ADD). I get so overwhelmed with all that needs to be done. Some areas look really nice, and many more areas do not. I wish I could just concentrate on getting everything weeded, then have a crew come in and spread mulch on all the weeded beds. That would stop all the weeding for a good long time. Then once everything's weeded and mulched, I can concentrate on shifting plants around, putting in new ones, etc. Today I worked at cleaning up a sales area, and it took me longer than I thought it would. I didn't set out to do it initially. I had worked on that area yesterday, and figured it was done enough. Well, I got to looking at it, and got anal about it, and wanted to do more. Now I have to finish up the rest so all of it will look good. Basically I have weed block down there under the potted plants. I had gotten all the pots weeded out and spent time yesterday hosing off the weed block. Then today I decided I really needed to move the pots and hose off under them as well. I think next year I'm just putting wood chips under the weed block. It will be so much simpler.

Another thing I did was work on cleaning up a bed that was next to that sales area. I should have just concentrated on that, but I decided one of the daylilies in that bed needed to come out and be potted up to sell. Then I decided PRIMAL SCREAM needed to be put in the spot that I just dug the other one up out of. That made me decide I needed to move around some other daylilies, so I concentrated on taking non-pink daylilies out of the bed that I've been converting into an all pink bed for the last couple of years, and switching them with pink ones from other beds. Ugh! Then, of course, they all needed watering, and the beds were not all close together, so I did a lot of dragging the hose around. Oh, and i dug up a peony that will be potted to sell, and I need to dig up more of it to move to a different spot, cause it's a red one, and it's in the pink bed. I need to put a pink peony there, or just more pink daylilies. Don't know which I'll do yet. I'm thinking I'd like another peony there. I have 2 that are not doing so hot in a shady bed. They would be much happier if I move them to the pink bed in the sun. But where to put the big, red one? Decisions, decisions...

Oh, and I got some of my new daylilies planted. I have many more still to plant. They're soaking in buckets of water. Not too much water, and not at the crowns. They're fine, though I did have a few get crown rot and die. They were all bonus plants from Blueridge. Bummer. The buckets had filled up too much when we got a lot of rain. Usually I try and keep an eye on that and dump out the excess water. One of the ones I lost was SEMINOLE WIND. Might have to see if I can get it again. That looked like a really nice one.

Here are before and after shots of my back sales area. The third shot is a before pic of the bed I started cleaning up today. This weekend I'll get it finished and post an after pic.

Karen