Good morning all. I took the morning off to work in the garden and it is RAINING. There is still so much weeding and transplanting to do in my flower gardens that I am a little overwhelmed. I’ve spent all my time (and squandered all my hubby help) in the new veggie garden, and that’s still not finished.
Tasks for this week is to finish those raised beds and plant everything not in the ground yet.
Get a timer for my hose so that I can be sure that the garden is watered when we are gone over Memorial Day. Even if it gets watered during a rain storm.
Get the blueberry bushes in, which means cleaning out the winter damage (broken evergreens) and the weeds, adding soil amendments and planting the bushes. It looks like I should plan to put down weed cloth — or what about planting zucchini around the bases of the bluebarries to cover the bare ground and keep the weeds away until the berries are large enough to provide their own shade?
Clean out another bed in what I call my “arch garden”. This means lifting a whole bunch of irises, pulling weeds, and adding new soil — then putting everything back.
I’ve got about 6 days to accomplish all of that, an all of those tasks require muscle help from my husband who will whine about it.
When I lived in WA State, I used to garden in the rain. I might have to learn to do that here too. :(
Depending on how small your blueberry plants are the zucchini’s might completely overtake them this summer. My zucchini plants are about 3-4ft tall right now. Ginormous! We have lots of blueberry plants and down here we just put newspapers down around them and cover those with pinestraw. Cheaper than weed cloth. We put down new pinestraw every year and new papers if we have a lot of weeds/grass coming up through the old (usually every other year).
Other than that it sounds like you’ve got your work cut out for you!
One day I’ll have a flower garden. I’ve squandered MY hubby help on the veggie garden this year too. I’m trying to talk him into preparing a spot for my perennial herbs right now.
Blueberries like acid soil so I mulch with Peat Moss or a similar mulch for acid loving plants but I still have to weed twice a year. Did you live and garden in western Washington?