Weekend garden chores
Susan Harris, who blogs for Homestead Gardens, is listing her June chores, and she says it is a short list....not like those long lists of garden chores you might find elsewhere.
I don't know. Her list seems long enough to me! She's weeding, watering, cutting back and clearing up the daffodil foliage.
North Country Maturing Gardener is dividing her irises as soon as they are done blooming.
Margaret Roach of A Way to Garden is staggering the planting of her summer bulbs, the glads, to extend the bloom time.
What are you doing in the garden this weekend? Let us know!
Me? I am cursing myself for thinking that roses had a place in my garden. It is simply too humid in Annapolis and I can't keep the disease and bugs at bay.
And I am still planting....
I am worried about the heat, but having read that you can still plant in June, I have a small hosta, a gallardia, a couple of new monardas and some liatris to install this weekend.
I also found some colorful ajuga for a stubbornly dry spot in the shade, plus two new anemones that I hope will do well.
There is something about gardeners: We never see the big picture. We only see the bare spots that need something new.
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I'm tearing my hair, looking at my plants that need to be planted and potatoes that are starting to look scary and are crying out for soil and seeds that I never got around to starting. Oh, and all the tomatoes I started, the labeling has been, shall we say, less than stellar, so I have no idea which to prune and which to leave sprawling. So I guess my list should be shortened to have a drink.
Oh. Kerry. I am soooooooo with you! -- Susan
Posted by: Kerry | June 11, 2010 11:27 AM
In between T-Ball games starring one or the other of the GrandBoys and a birthday luncheon on Sunday, I'll be digging a new bed in which to plant the hydrangea that I found this week at a too-good-to-pass-by price and planting the marigolds that I bought last night around the tomato plants (why? I can't remember, but at least 30 years ago Jerry Baker said I should do this, so now Marigolds Among the Tomato Plants is, simply, What I Do!) and making little fences from chicken wire for each plant, to keep the dog from trampling them in his quest to herd the squirrel population. And the watermelon seeds that GrandGirl and I planted have turned into plants that must get out of that egg carton!
Posted by: Eve | June 11, 2010 11:50 AM
I just ran inside when it started raining--please, let us get a good soaking! I was gathering seeds of my tall Shasta daisies for a friend and cutting back tired stems. They will bloom again after being cut back. I spread this weekend's collection of coffee grounds on heavy clay that needs remediation. Next on the list: fertilize the pond plants! I still have seeds that should be planted, but it may not happen any time soon.
Posted by: Dahlink | June 13, 2010 2:30 PM
I'm already in 110° summer maintenance mode: the watering is automatic, so all I have to do is keep up with the harvesting and mowing.
This weekend in Phoenix AZ:
1 - Mowed the lawn for the fourth time this year (I'm loving this grass)
2 - Harvested several pounds of Serrano chilis for SO to smoke.
3 - SO and SO's son pruned mesquite trees (ongoing project cleaning up some neglected ones), cut for firewood or shredded the branches
4 - Refreshed the mulch on the veggie bed with the shredded mesquite branches. I don't know where it all goes, but there was 6 inches of mulch on there a year ago.
Posted by: Lazy Gardens | June 13, 2010 3:07 PM
Dahlink, how do you fertilize pond plants without poisoning the fish?
(There is no water garden in my forseeable future, but it's good to be prepared!)
Posted by: Eve | June 14, 2010 10:10 AM