It's been a rough week for getting gardening done- work has been crazy and personal life has been crazy and my elderly little dog isn't having a good week. AND my garden chores are looming and it's not raining.
I'm usually spoiled by a decent amount of rain where other than potted plants and the veggie garden I mostly don't HAVE to water. Dragging a hose around everyday is not for me and it's cutting into planting time. I'm spending so much time watering that I barely have time to get them planted- which would save me a lot of watering time if I could just get them in the ground.
Anyhow- I whine, I know. What I really need to do is not buy another plant until every single plant I already have is in the ground. It has been several days since my last plant purchase.
Happy days though- thanks to the dry weather, the grass I was trying to kill is dying a lot faster. I was able to go ahead and start planting the first of my solarized beds. Planted the last three hydrangea, 2 hibiscus, a baptisia, and around 8 other herbaceous perennials in around an hour. A lot of those were ones I needed to water twice a day- so I probably gave myself 15 more minutes of daily planting time by getting those ones in the ground. I really need to just finish moving everything where it will go. Probably tomorrow night after work I will spread all the plants around on the solarizing beds and figure out where everyone is getting planted. It is a lot faster to plant when you aren't thinking about who will look good with who.
Unfortuantely, I completely forgot that a rose order that I got came in with some pots with quadrupled roses, so I divided those into individual pots back in May. In other words, I thought I had 38 roses left to plant, but, I actually have 70 left to plant. Fortuantely, most of those are tiny roses, so I can always just stick them in the ground in a trench and move them in the spring, which will likely be what I do with all the little ones. I didn't intend to keep so many duplicates, but, got no takers on Facebook marketplace. People where I'm at don't like starter plants - and why buy a vintage miniature from me when Walmart has a basic pink for $3.99? Not hating on those ones from Walmart either. The only thing I don't like about them is that they don't sell them with the names and so you have no way of knowing what zone they are hardy to. I still buy a cute one whenever I see it and stick it in the garden, most of them have overwintered for me. It's just a shame to never know their names.
It's supposed to rain off and on Friday thru Tuesday- I'm really, really hoping it rains during my workday leaving me the entire evening to plant. If it could just do that a few times, I could make a huge amount of progress now that the beds are mostly solarized. Of course, it will probably rain after work, but, a girl can dream.. lol
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