It has been 0 days since my last plant purchase

 I keep saying I need to stop buying plants for the year, but, keep running into absolute steals I can't pass up. Yeah. Bought 24 more irises today. I might need to just deactivate Facebook for a couple of weeks so I'm not tempted by my various buy groups.. lol

Earlier this year I got a few beds started solarizing. This morning I decided to just buy tarps to kill grass a bit faster since it's starting to cool a bit and it might work better now to just block the grass from light than to solarize. Anyhow, I just eyeballed my beds that I made earlier in the year and made them whatever size looked right. I measured this morning to see what size tarps I needed to make more beds the same size and my beds are somehow exactly 10' by 10'. I couldn't have made them that exact if I had tried to. My spouse didn't get how weird that was, but, I'm not that good at eyeballing measurements. It's absolutely bonkers that it is 10'x10' exactly. Just the sheer convenience of that! Anyhow, ordered in five 10'x10' tarps to more easily get more beds going, should be here for middle of the week.

My aunt was in town, so spent more time visiting family than gardening. I puttered around a bit in the yard until noon- weeded all of my dahlia pots and got 6 more moved from 1 gallon to 5 or 7 gallon depending on variety. Total dahlia losses for the tuber rot stage appear to be around 19 out of 170- not horrible for a first season AND most of the failures are all from the same seller. That one seller has a 50% rot rate for the tubers I bought from them. Will not be buying from them next year for sure.

Goals for tomorrow are to up pot my last 1.5 trays of seedlings and use up my remaining 5/7 gallons pots moving the dahlias up to bigger pots. I believe I have around 30 of those pots. Have around 100 3 gallon pots, since it is so late in the season anyways, I may just put the rest of the dahlias in 3 gallon pots- particularly smaller varieties and NOID and mystery ones that weren't that exciting to begin with. Undecided. On the other hand, might make more sense to just finish lining my fenceline with the right size pot instead of swapping them out next year. Sounds like a lot of extra work.

Ongoing weeding as well and need to relabel the whole rose garden as the tags are almost too faded for me to read them now. Maybe I'll get labels on two more wedges tomorrow- but that will be after potting dahlias or if I need a break. Hope my dirt pile holds out!