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I spent two hours in a friend's backyard this morning (10-12), and cleared a remarkably small plot of earth.
It's, like, 5'x2' or something. :-)
To explain:
1) I'm in *terrible* shape, physically. No, really. It's rather pathetic. Upper-body-strength? What's that? :-)
2) Her yard is wild - as in the space has been reclaimed by burdock, dandilions, mustard, quack grass, and that rpetty purple relative-of-alfalfa, among other things. Digging any of that up definitely took some doing. :-)
But.
I have errected a garden arch (partially burried to help keep it upright - I really, really hope that works - I may bring some bamboo stakes or something when I go next, just to help prop it up, but it should be okay).
Around the arch, I have planted scarlet runner beans, morning glories, and sweet peas. I have also planted carrots, brown eyed susans, poppies and bee balm. Here's hoping some of it comes up. :-D
I'll be going back (probably) tomorrow morning, to dig up some space along the back fence. I'll be planting the squash (sweet meat, small sugar pumpkin, butternut, calibaza (which I'm not sure will grow) and carnival). I also need to dig up a space for a bunch of hollyhocks (Potentially along the neighbour's fence, though I'm not sure yet. They may go by the steps, instead).
There still needs to be space (possibly near the half-burried patio that has a wooden chair on it) for: forget-me-nots, bachelors' buttons, spearmint, lupins, and giant marigolds. :-)
***
As for my own garden, I've got some blue (purplish, perhaps) lupins to plant in the yard, a bleeding heart to transplant (not sure where that's going to go). I'd also like to get a second (well, third, technically, but my original second one seems to have died off at the root, or picked up and walked away - either way, it's disappeared) blueberry bush to go with my first one. :-) I can pick that up - most likely - from Home Depot (along with some bamboo stakes for the tomatoes, the compost-fence, and the above-mentioned garden arch).
As well as forget-me-nots and spearmint and bachelors' buttons (I've been calling them corn-flowers for years...) to dig up and put in pots for the above-mentioned other garden.
In other news: I need to find out if Zellers has a CD section. I think it's time for a music run, and this would let me do it using gift certificates. :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)
It's, like, 5'x2' or something. :-)
To explain:
1) I'm in *terrible* shape, physically. No, really. It's rather pathetic. Upper-body-strength? What's that? :-)
2) Her yard is wild - as in the space has been reclaimed by burdock, dandilions, mustard, quack grass, and that rpetty purple relative-of-alfalfa, among other things. Digging any of that up definitely took some doing. :-)
But.
I have errected a garden arch (partially burried to help keep it upright - I really, really hope that works - I may bring some bamboo stakes or something when I go next, just to help prop it up, but it should be okay).
Around the arch, I have planted scarlet runner beans, morning glories, and sweet peas. I have also planted carrots, brown eyed susans, poppies and bee balm. Here's hoping some of it comes up. :-D
I'll be going back (probably) tomorrow morning, to dig up some space along the back fence. I'll be planting the squash (sweet meat, small sugar pumpkin, butternut, calibaza (which I'm not sure will grow) and carnival). I also need to dig up a space for a bunch of hollyhocks (Potentially along the neighbour's fence, though I'm not sure yet. They may go by the steps, instead).
There still needs to be space (possibly near the half-burried patio that has a wooden chair on it) for: forget-me-nots, bachelors' buttons, spearmint, lupins, and giant marigolds. :-)
***
As for my own garden, I've got some blue (purplish, perhaps) lupins to plant in the yard, a bleeding heart to transplant (not sure where that's going to go). I'd also like to get a second (well, third, technically, but my original second one seems to have died off at the root, or picked up and walked away - either way, it's disappeared) blueberry bush to go with my first one. :-) I can pick that up - most likely - from Home Depot (along with some bamboo stakes for the tomatoes, the compost-fence, and the above-mentioned garden arch).
As well as forget-me-nots and spearmint and bachelors' buttons (I've been calling them corn-flowers for years...) to dig up and put in pots for the above-mentioned other garden.
In other news: I need to find out if Zellers has a CD section. I think it's time for a music run, and this would let me do it using gift certificates. :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)
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