One of the small orange milkweeds is coming back — its just started poking through. Also, I put a few things in the ground today:








Photographs and thoughts from Andrea Badgley's garden
One of the small orange milkweeds is coming back — its just started poking through. Also, I put a few things in the ground today:
Two full days of gardening down, and I’ve barely made a dent in the work. It would probably help if I didn’t keep buying plants.
I bought more plants anyway.
Today I bought:
I moved the final plants around in the front beds to make space for everything that’s going to go there. I can’t remember which day I did what,:
Today our daughter sowed some blue wheat, and we covered it with twigs to keep the birds from eating the seeds. It looks like a giant nest in the middle of the bed. have no idea if these will work or how they’ll look, but that’s the fun of gardening. If I don’t like the wheat, I can just put an ornamental grass in that spot next year.
Once I got all the plants in place, I started edging the front bed like I did with the herb bed — slice an edge using the half-moon spade, dig a trench using the shovel or a trowel — and then I started mulching.
The front bed is big, so I’m mulching it one section at a time. I hope to finish that on day four, and maybe the mailbox too.
At that point I’ll maybe be able to relax and rest. I’ve got a couple more things I want to do out back, and I’m hopeful I can get to those before this weekend: before the mulch.
The back hill is going to be a beast to spread mulch on, but for that I’ve enlisted the help of Virginia Tech’s Big Event, a student-run day of service where students help residents with projects like painting a house or mulching a garden. I’ve got my fingers crossed it doesn’t get rained (or snowed) out. I’m not sure if I can handle covering that big hill by myself.