Thursday/Friday
Last bit for Thursday:
I got the hole dug in the new place by the the milk house foundations, dug up some Daffodils and Sweet William that were in the way and tucked them into a pot, then dug up the KC peony from in front of the barn and moved it to its new home.
Friday:
Got up early to beat some of the heat, dug up and potted the second Lady's Mantle into two pots, so now I have three, all on the patio.
Had breakfast, then worked on digging some phlox and odds and ends out of the flower beds to the south of the house that form an arc. There is really quite a lot of phlox and I should like to have some other flowers there beside. Well, and there's Day lilies too, but they more or less stay in their spots, whereas the phlox is getting rather full of itself. Also, I'd like less work in the fall, thank you. The phlox seem to trap moisture in their midst quite well - lots of tiny slugs. I expect there are snails there too as in other damper areas here, I just didn't see any today. With the summer seeming to be turning into one of those hot and humid ones, a little less damp being trapped might be a good thing...well, we'll see.
Oh! Meant to mention that I saw a hummingbird moth a couple days ago, hovering high overhead above the patio. There are plenty of flowers here, so it won't starve.
I have a small tree in that bed that I'm working on removing -- it's been cut down in place several times over the years. Once I've cleared a good piece, I can dig up the Iris and the rest of the daffodils by the barn and move them over to the bed. Thankfully, being an established bed it doesn't have nearly as many rocks as where we've been trying to make the raised bed. I might put some of the veg there too, as otherwise they'll all be in pots all summer.
Went to personal training, which went well. Shoulders moving more easily this week. Hips and knees mostly behaving, aside from a brief bout of sciatica earlier this week. Ba Duan Jin has been my friend!
Air is...not bad here this afternoon. May or may not go outside again this evening. A lot to do this weekend, if all goes well, so probably don't want to push it. It's good to know the plants are pretty happy out there though :)
I got the hole dug in the new place by the the milk house foundations, dug up some Daffodils and Sweet William that were in the way and tucked them into a pot, then dug up the KC peony from in front of the barn and moved it to its new home.
Friday:
Got up early to beat some of the heat, dug up and potted the second Lady's Mantle into two pots, so now I have three, all on the patio.
Had breakfast, then worked on digging some phlox and odds and ends out of the flower beds to the south of the house that form an arc. There is really quite a lot of phlox and I should like to have some other flowers there beside. Well, and there's Day lilies too, but they more or less stay in their spots, whereas the phlox is getting rather full of itself. Also, I'd like less work in the fall, thank you. The phlox seem to trap moisture in their midst quite well - lots of tiny slugs. I expect there are snails there too as in other damper areas here, I just didn't see any today. With the summer seeming to be turning into one of those hot and humid ones, a little less damp being trapped might be a good thing...well, we'll see.
Oh! Meant to mention that I saw a hummingbird moth a couple days ago, hovering high overhead above the patio. There are plenty of flowers here, so it won't starve.
I have a small tree in that bed that I'm working on removing -- it's been cut down in place several times over the years. Once I've cleared a good piece, I can dig up the Iris and the rest of the daffodils by the barn and move them over to the bed. Thankfully, being an established bed it doesn't have nearly as many rocks as where we've been trying to make the raised bed. I might put some of the veg there too, as otherwise they'll all be in pots all summer.
Went to personal training, which went well. Shoulders moving more easily this week. Hips and knees mostly behaving, aside from a brief bout of sciatica earlier this week. Ba Duan Jin has been my friend!
Air is...not bad here this afternoon. May or may not go outside again this evening. A lot to do this weekend, if all goes well, so probably don't want to push it. It's good to know the plants are pretty happy out there though :)