The wisteria is in bloom and I couldn’t be happier.
And the chickens are hard at work pulling weeds. Just look at that nice bare spot where their coop was. Way to go ladies!!!
Lucy loves her babies so much, and now that I know they can clear weeds from the flower patch quickly, next spring I think I’ll order 7 more hens or maybe even more. 😉
The tomato plants have really started to take off these past few weeks, the peppers not so much. I think it might have to do with the fact that we added a bit of compost to the area where the tomatoes are planted but ran out by the time we put the pepper plants in the ground.
I’ll get a truck load or two of horse manure from one of the stables up the road this fall, and have the HH spread it over the vegetable patch. I’ve never done that before, but I have a feeling the benefits will far outweigh the stink.
This week I’m working on clearing daylilies and a few other random plants and shrubs I have no interest in so we can expand our vegetable growing area. If you look closely you can see an arbor over by Harriet, our mystery fruit tree. Once I get that area cleared, I think I’ll have the HH move the arbor to another location so Harriet has a little breathing room.
Plus, I think it would be cool to grow a few birdhouse gourds or pole beans around the arbor next summer… which is kind of hard to do right now because the arbor is so close to the fruit tree and there are bushes brushing up against it.
Daylilies. We have an abundance of them and I’d really like to move the majority of them to another location PRONTO but I need to know what color the lilies are before I can do that. So far, they’re all orange. 🙁
I really do like the rock gardens at the back of the house, but I’d rather have something else besides daylilies growing in them.
This rock garden grouping has oregano, chives, a few raspberry canes, sedum and Dicentra ‘King of Hearts’. Visually, I just can’t handle it and right now the whole are just feels like a jumbled mess. I would much rather see an entire bed filled with just oregano. Or just chives. Maybe you think that’s weird, but I need a little more organization in my garden spaces. So, once the weather cools down later this fall, I’ll move the plants and maybe dedicate this {and the surrounding} area to herbs. We’ll see.
I might even do away with the sectioned off rock groupings all together {but keep the rock wall} and install rows of herbs so I could keep the area weeded a bit better. Anything that would create less work in the long run would be a total bonus at this point.
Mystery Plant of the Week: White campion. {Thanks Liz!}
Harriet the mystery fruit tree. This is one of her babies. I’m hoping for quince!
This is Paul. He’s a red pear tree I found hunched over and buried in a swath of daylilies over by the corn patch. He has 4 of the most beautiful pears dangling off his branches and he must be saved.
Poor Paul. Let this be a warning to you. Daylilies are nice, but apparently they will take over an entire yard if you let them. I was thinking about contacting a local horticultural society to see if they’d be interested in some of the 250 million daylilies we have on the property. My thought was they could sell them in one of their plant sales or something.
Once the HH gets his tractor, he said he’d dig me a long trench along the front of the property so I could transplant 100 or so daylilies for a nice long border. They may not be my favorite flower, but I think the daylilies would look great in front of the long rock wall at the end of our road. And since I wanted to do a mass planting of daffodils in that same area, if the daylilies were there we’d have flowers growing along that strip in late spring as well as during the summer months. I think it might be a good plan.
Oh, and before I forget, what do you know about gypsy moths? I shared this photo with my friend Heather from Massachusetts and she said I need to have our trees sprayed for gypsy moths. Like ASAP. And of course, I know nothing about this because I’ve never had to deal with gypsy moths before. Do YOU have any tips? Any favorite sprays or remedies? I’m all ears.
Gardening, not a day goes by where I don’t learn something new.
Enjoy the day, it’s supposed to get up to 80 degrees around here today.
~Mavis
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