Got the remainder of my shrubs planted Wed. eveining; two Birchleaf Spirea and two Emerald Arborvitae. I’m starting the ‘bones’ of what will be a ‘gorgeous, dahling’ Evergreen Garden on the east side of my property. I still need to find a spot for my Champagne Pink Currant, which I thought was a Red Lake but will blend in just as well when it’s all jelly. Or wine. ;)
I have a bushel of fall bulbs to plant; daffodils, crocus, big, fat red Dutch tulips...if it ever stops raining! We had 2 inches again today. It’s messy, cold and just plain icky out there. No fall tilling for me; it’ll all have to wait until spring at this rate. Grrrrrr!
I would like to report to the team that despite the cr@ppy economy and the pending ‘End of the World as We Know It,’ I had $60K in nursery and perennial and veggie plant and annual flower sales ABOVE last year! Wa-Hoo! I’m really getting the hang of the business end of gardening. That will bode well for me in the future whether I’m working for myself or for someone else. :)
As for the inside of the house: got new carpeting in our bedroom today. It’s very nice; short-loop chocolate brown with various colored flecks in it. Of course, it was a barter; Husband traded web page design and maintenenace for it. Gotta love that man...and I do! :) The kitchen flooring is next.
Wait a minute! It just dawned on me...our new carpeting looks just like DIRT, LOL! Guess I CAN have an indoor garden and an outdoor garden, too. :)
When the leaves finish falling I will use the push mower w/ bagger to collect for adding to the garden and compost next year. Bagged the leaves make a good protection around my blueberry plants. I usually have around 20 large bags of leaves and add them during the gardening season to my composter, mixed with the fresh green clippings I collect around the perimeter of the garden. The composter holds three bags of fresh cut green clippings and one bag of the leaves collected in the fall. In two weeks I have a couple of large wheelbarrows of 'weed' free mulch to put back into the garden.
The ground is so wet today, that collecting the leaves right now would be like pushing around a wet/dry vac.
Think how much time you'll save on vacuuming - if it looks like dirt to begin with, who's gonna know?
Sounds great, Di! The flowerbed and the carpet!
Glad your sales were up. We don’t keep such accurate records/still grazing with the dinosaurs here. But...I can tell you that we sold way more than last year. I write down what we plant/ when we run out. By the numbers, we did way more and we are out of everything but lettuce. Planted my barrels at the bottom of my steps today.