Canadian Gardening: What's happening in your neck of the woods friends, Sept./10, 1 by fancyvan

fancyvan wrote:
Betty:my method is
1. go buy plants, usually lst week in May. I looooove buying plants!
2. walk around beds with plant in hand looking for appropriate spot.
3. leave plant ( in pot) in place for a few days.
4. If seems OK plant
5 If not OK walk around some more and find another spot, Repeat 3/4
6. If when plant is full grown the spot is not right dig up and replant somewhere else.
( Once in a while I lose track of a potted plant and find it later dried up for lack of water! )
Sometimes I take pics of the beds in the spring or summer to see where there are spots that need something ( which is getting pretty rare!) before I go to buy.

Markers dont always work! I stuck some markers in with a few plants last fall that I wanted to move. One of them just said move and I could not remember why. So I had to wait for it to flower and discovered I didnt want to move it after all!

Ricky got all the pots cleaned out and stored this morning plus cut down a fair number of the perennials. I got the hops cut down but not yet bagged. Usually, since I dont have enough space to compost, most of this goes in the garbage but a friend has taken on the task of getting a community garden going in her area and has three 4x4 compost bins so I am going to make a contribution to her bins. Still lots to do but I dont like to cut down plants that still look nice. But it is easier to do it in the fall.
I had two yellow cherry tomatro plants this year. One was big and leggy, the other small and compact. I brought the little one in last week and it is in the sun in the bathroom- loaded with fruit.