Showing posts with label bleeding heart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bleeding heart. Show all posts

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Weed, mulch, weed, mulch, mulch...


We purchased 3 yards of mulch. It sits in a pile at the end of the driveway. Last weekend, i mulched the main flower bed, the crescent bed neat the paper bark maple and the crab apple bed in the front yard. This past weekend, i mulched around the two bradford pears, the front sidewalk bed, the beds around the front of the house and around the patio. Still have so much to do... and my legs remind me of what all i've done so far.

In the midst of my weeding i found a heuchera that has seeded behind the tree near the front porch. I'll need to move it to a more suitable place. One spot that i thought i might move it to, i found (when removing the old-fashioned daisy) a tiny little bleeding heart. I had transplanted it last fall and was dismayed when i didn't see it this spring. But it did survive, it was just drowned out by the daisy. One plant that didn't survive the winter was the black cohosh. I'm really saddened that it didn't make it.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Ah Spring...


Bleeding Heart
Originally uploaded by pjslomer
The April showers this morning was welcome by this gardener. I've been doing a lot of bed reclamation. The weeds grow back into what i've created... so i go along, maddock in hand pulling the weeds, crabgrass, etc. back away from the edges. So many buckets full of weeds... but i am making progress and many of the beds that i didn't get to last year are being reclaimed this year. Still have much more to do.

In the veggie plot, we (joseph) tilled in the manure and we are just about ready to plant. I need to ask Dad what can go in at this time. I am starting some seeds indoors... basil for sure.