Northeast Gardening: Garden Projects 2, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
DH and I planted the Acer Shirazz today, which meant before we could plant it, I had to move another maple and a bunch of other things to give it have a nice happy home. Looks good. I trimmed it a bit and we gave it some home made gold from our compost pile to give it a good start.

Bad news is that sometime in the last couple of days, I lost a nice gold bangle bracelet that my DH gave me about 10 years ago for Xmas. I hope it turns up in the fall clean up. No doubt it came off when I was weeding or pruning. I went through all the compost pile that I made in the last few day, no luck. Having been sick, I have been at home mostly. So it should be here.

I also divided and moved a bunch of hosta to clean up a bed that looked sad. I then decided that I need to move a couple of viburnums later in the week when we will supposedly have rain, so that will be a good time to do that. I noticed that a paeonia that I planted a few years ago in my hot bed turned out to be a pale pink one. I will wait until fall to move it. I thought it was going to be a red one. Wonder where the red one is?

Some of our primula continue to bloom. I moved a patch of Japanese ones that had finished blooming to a better spot this morning. I was able to divide a couple of them. DH and I did a quick veggie bed weeding and I pinched the tomato plants. They look good so far. No blight.

I also fixed a stone path by changing out some stepping stones for better ones that I recently found in the woods. When we built the house the mason laid out the stones on the edge of the woods that he was using in the terraces, so he could pick out the ones he wanted. A giant puzzle. When he was done we had a reject pile of stones that over the years DH and I have used to build all the paths through out the garden. But a few buried stones kept turning up now and again in the woods. We found a couple of good ones this spring.

Busy day, but now I am done for the day. DH did a major scrubbing of the rocks in the endless stream and is still out there working away. But tomorrow he is about to start working on our little sail boat, so he will be of no help for the week. Nut grass is taking over a couple of beds....hate that stuff. Patti

This message was edited Jun 7, 2010 6:11 PM