What did YOU do in your garden today :P

897tgigvib

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Cane, I forget, did you ever figure the mystery of the Irises?
 

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I dug out weeds, planted store clearance tulips, creeping phlox, and a groundcover and 3 clearance mini roses I've been growing in my basement windows all winter. I also filled in with onions starts under my raised crown pine trees, where the weeds have had their LAST heyday!
I took the grass that I dug out to put in my magnolia tree and used them as sod where the salt by my side door sidewalk had killed a stretch. I dug out the used dirt, scooped in some compost and placed them, then heavily watered. Sod is the BEST!!! :D
 

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Cane, I forget, did you ever figure the mystery of the Irises?

You mean the color changing thing? Nope. I divided them up and doubled the bed size last year so there weren't a whole lot of blooms then. So far this year just a few small ones of the original 'regular' purple. Waiting to see if there are any yellow and bi-color ones this year.
Gardening is, for me, sort of magic anyway - so the weird colors coming out of no where are just part of the joy of it.

ETA:
Whoops! I took a good look at them Sun afternoon and there are at least 4 that are going to be yellow! :)
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I spent 3 hours scrubbing the deck floor with a deck cleaner. While spouse and son played pool. Then son came up, saw me, hooked up the power washer, and finished the deck in no time - no cleaner needed.

My deck looks like new. Tomorrow I intend to stain the deck "Natural Cedar" for color and protection.

In the garden, I spread some of last year's chicken compost, spread a 2.2 cu ft bag of peat moss, and turned everything over with the shovel. Looks pretty good! Then I planted my alliums -- mostly in one bed. Later I will plant the cole crops in that bed. I did that one year before and I swear the cole bugs never found my plants amid the scent of onions.
 

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did some raking around the yard and trained my dh on how to till the garden! i nearly :th he did a decent job for it being his first time. i did have him work an area that has been tilled for 2 years so the ground is soft enough to not be much of an issue. i was afraid he would have an issue with his balance but he did very well! next week i may have him work a few new areas once he clears them of leaves first. :woot
 

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Not IN the garden yet, but I moved my tomatoes up from the basement so they can be started hardening off.

Plan to get some potatoes planted -- if someone finds it a priority to get a tiller running -- otherwise it is mow the yard for the first time this year.
 
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