Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening Spring 2013, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Today was just glorious!!! I was outside for hours!

Fertilized my lawn with Milorganite. Need to mow it any day now--but haven't gotten to it yet.

My work centered mostly on my "YUK" bed. Did a lot of clean-up there...Dug out
a clump of small daffs.--in full bloom and, immediately, potted it into a 2gal pot.
It was growing almost out of the center of my New England Aster.
How on Earth do they get established there? Will offer it up to my daughter...

Dug up a big clump of Autumn sedum that always interferes with my Heliopsis daisies there.
Potted up sections of it as well as the bigger clump. Pink one. Any takers?
Pulled up as many weed onions as i could--I KNOW it is a lost cause!
Raked up a lot of stray leaves--mostly from the YUK bed and around the edges of others.

Convinced my Pakistani neighbor to allow me to prune back all her roses she is growing from cuttings.
She has NO clue about pruning anything...so i kept telling her she will thank me later on.
She roots every little twig of her roses--and they grow so leggy. Must be floribundas.
Hybrids do not root that easily from cuttings. She tried last year on mine. None of the rooted.
That took about an hour. I will just call it "community service"...

Found some weed killer and sprayed it on all my "onions"--everywhere---after I crushed them with my shoe.
We will see---we will see.....Also on some Clover that is starting up on a spot on my back lawn.
DO NOT want it!!!!

Need to, seriously soon. cut back the top 1/3 of my two BIG Burning Bushes.
They always grow these tall, new shoots. Yeah! I prune them every year....
I like to keep it at a manageable height. It is, kind of, a personal, visual bush-boundry .
Once it leafs out--it is hard to see where to cut any of the branches....
Maybe i can talk my back yard neighbor to come over with his chain saw and just go
"whirrrrr" straight across. Will save me a lot of pain in my hand to hand-prune every branch.

After all that--sat down on my porch swing and had a beer and read up on care of some of the
plants I acquired last year.

My S.E.M. (Stupid Earth Machine) composter is FULL to the top. I cannot put any more in it....
Will have to trash all my veggie scraps. Do not want to...No activity in there during the winter months....

I NEED SOMEONE TO BUILD ME A 4x4x4COMPOST BIN!!!!! A paid job...reasonable...
Don't want to use pallets...too unsightly in an open area in a development.
Have to bug someone... maybe check for "handyman ads"--- Must be someone who wants to earn a couple bucks!

The S.E.M. has to go! Dysfunctional--old--cracked--can't turn anything over---can't get the
"good stuff" our without unloading ALL the contents inside. BLAHHHHH....HUMBUG.....
It is time I did that--but NOT going to put the un-composted stuff back in there.
That is why I need the new, open one.

OK! Enough bitching! Need to smile....today WAS actually SPRING!
Gita
S.E.M.----That black "thing" by my shed......