Weekend garden chores: mine
On Fridays here at Garden Variety, I usually post a list of season-appropriate garden chores to give rookie gardeners in the Mid-Atlantic an idea of what they should be doing....and to remind veteran gardeners that gardens don't take care of themselves.
This week, I'm gonna do something different.
I am making a list of MY garden chores for the weekend. Maybe if I write them down, I will actually get them done. Here they are...
- Continue deadheading the faded daffodils and sprinkle them with fertilizer as they begin their dormant period.
- Gently scratch in the time-release fertilizer that I scattered last week. I have pretty much decided not to mulch this year, so some modest cultivation is going to be necessary, I think, to keep the weeds from taking hold
- Scrup my pots with mild soap and bleach to kill whatever nasty stuff is left over from last season. Fill them with fresh soil, mixing in a little time-release fertilizer as my container gardening guru Kerry Michaels suggests. Then they will be ready for planting when temperatures warm.
- Plant the succulents I purchased at the opening of Homestead Gardens' new store in Severna Park last night. (Wine, appetizers AND shopping! It was heaven.) Since reading Debra Baldwins new book, Succulent Container Gardens, I am all about succulents. Can't wait to get them planted in my pretty glazed pots! They are tiny. Here's hoping they fill out.
- And finally, sit on the front porch with a bottle of cold water while I watch my DH edge my beds.
