What Did You Do In The Garden?

[digitS']

After the first 7 minutes of the Indoor Exercise yesterday, the thought occurred to me: what in heaven's name am i doing? I went out and at my somewhat random pace, spent 2 hours finding and cutting old boards, driving rebar stakes, setting boards and moving soil back against my crude retaining wall. It should last for a few years.

The rebar stakes for the hoops may be set in place for the pvc hoops and, maybe, I will pull the hoops out from their storage llocation in the crawl space under the south room. Setting them up will be about all I am willing to do without some reassurance from the Weather Service re: windstorms.

Setting the plastic film in place isn't really a 2 day job but it's more than 1 day with the hoops, cutting the film, pull it in place, attach to window and door frames with lathe, install door and window, tie down to big stakes with baling twine, place boards & bricks/rocks along edges, etc.

It's all worth it for the 9' x 20' protected environment for a nice, early starting place. It used to be of even more use as I filled the 18" path with flats of plants that overflowed the 9' x 20' greenhouse and were for a distant garden. My knee held up well with yesterday's activity and didn't cause any later, added torment. That's the condition this morning, after 8 hours on the horizontal.

Steve

 

[digitS']

Late season in a past year — center path covered with flats of things to transplant out elsewhere.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

digitS’ very impressive ‘past year’green carpet of seedlings. That’s a lot of work and determination. I remember those day’s well. . Luv the memories we share of gardening.

 

[ducks4you]

Sunday, I dug out about 6 red (or yellow) tulips that had jumped the border, and dug out the clump of purple tulips in another location. I put them in 2 buckets and they sat practically in the dark on the basement counter until today. My whiskey barrel planter is wooden, the pot is plastic with a rim, but no drainage. I started a fire in my fire pit, grabbed a piece of rebar, heated it up in the fire and melted a nice, neat 1/2 inch drainage hole in the center.
Funny, the wooden part Has a 2 inch diameter hole...
I filled in the bottom half with stuff from a 2 month old pile of used stall bedding, dug out from the middle of my garden fencing (with there are mounds and the soil is rich and easy to handle,) and shoveled out more soil, then I drove the plastic pot and the pots of tulips in my tow wagon over to deposit them in the wooden whiskey barrel, just north of the bottom of the front door steps.
I am sure that they will live. Pulling them up this late, I am not sure that any will flower. Doesn't matter.
By May all of the tulips leaves will have died down and be impossible to find. For 5 years I have promised youngest DD that she can have the purple tulips. IF they start to produce buds I will pot them up and she can take them to her office to show off. If NOT, she can dig some holes in her yard and we will transplant later in the year.