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the gardening is now mostly done!
Dec. 11th, 2019 08:30 pmyesterday, we had a freakishly warm day, so i spent a lot of it either dodging rain or working in the garden. the last of the lilies, allium, and species tulips are now planted.
i remain amazed at how much construction debris i keep pulling out of my gardens after twenty years of gardening; this time it was a mixture of slabs of concrete left over from pouring the front walk and bits of siding. the concrete does explain why i could never get anything to grow in certain spots.
in ripping up spots to plant lilies, i did find very happy colonies of daffodils only a few inches deep, so maybe they don't have to go quite as deep as specified. my beds are pretty sheltered and warm. but on the other hand, i've lost plenty of bulbs to intense cold before. (which is why i still have most of a bag of daffodil bulbs i need to figure out what to do with: the daffodils got hit pretty hard last winter.)
there's still some bulbs to go for a bed that needs to be torn up and replanted. it's a small bed around the ugly base of a streetlamp, and somehow grass managed to cross the impervious plastic barrier around it, and now it's full of turf. because of a series of powerful fronts passing, i should get another warm day next week to attack that.
some time ago, i discovered that two blueberry bushes died mysteriously. we did have a bit of a dry spell in the fall, and that may have done it. but they were both replacements, so i need to check those spots to make sure there's nothing wrong with them. in any case, i just started to get spring gardening catalogs(!) and i see that there's a few new hybrids of highbush (domesticated) and lowbush (wild-type) blueberries available that should tolerate my climate better.
i remain amazed at how much construction debris i keep pulling out of my gardens after twenty years of gardening; this time it was a mixture of slabs of concrete left over from pouring the front walk and bits of siding. the concrete does explain why i could never get anything to grow in certain spots.
in ripping up spots to plant lilies, i did find very happy colonies of daffodils only a few inches deep, so maybe they don't have to go quite as deep as specified. my beds are pretty sheltered and warm. but on the other hand, i've lost plenty of bulbs to intense cold before. (which is why i still have most of a bag of daffodil bulbs i need to figure out what to do with: the daffodils got hit pretty hard last winter.)
there's still some bulbs to go for a bed that needs to be torn up and replanted. it's a small bed around the ugly base of a streetlamp, and somehow grass managed to cross the impervious plastic barrier around it, and now it's full of turf. because of a series of powerful fronts passing, i should get another warm day next week to attack that.
some time ago, i discovered that two blueberry bushes died mysteriously. we did have a bit of a dry spell in the fall, and that may have done it. but they were both replacements, so i need to check those spots to make sure there's nothing wrong with them. in any case, i just started to get spring gardening catalogs(!) and i see that there's a few new hybrids of highbush (domesticated) and lowbush (wild-type) blueberries available that should tolerate my climate better.