For some reason I woke up at 5:45 this morning and that was it, I was up. After making Joe coffee and breakfast, I started my day. Luckily (or unluckily, depending on who you ask) Lowe's opens at 6 am. I went there to get some of that gardening cloth that blocks weed growth, and garden staples, however by the time I was done shopping and checked out the only thing I forgot to buy was the weed block cloth and the garden staples! I ended up buying a composting bin, a grape vine, and a bunch of perennials that were on the clearance rack. I always hit the clearance rack while I'm in the gardening department there, the second a plant has a wilted leaf the put it on the clearance rack. In the past I bought 4 hanging containers of pansies that were original $24.50 each for $6.00 apiece, they are beautiful (well were beautiful, somebody was kind enough to steal two of them right off their hanging hooks last night.) Today off the clearance rack,I bought 2 potted Lollipop Gerber Daisies that haven't even bloomed yet, for $5.00 each, originally $22.50, 2 flats of Soapwort for $2.75 each, a flat of Herman's Pride Archangel for $2.75 and a random, sad looking daisy of some sort ($.50). I also bought one full priced Blue Salvia. By 7:30 this morning I had my compost bin assembled and all of my new flowers planted. Then I weeded the garden, I'll go back tomorrow and buy the cloth!
After I finished planting, I weeded my bed with the pumpkins in it. I have an invasive type of morning glory growing EVERYWHERE in my yard, especially in my beds that I did not raise off the ground. When I was dumping the weeds in the compost pile in the back I noticed that a canteloupe plant growing. After I planted my beds, I threw all of the dead seedlings into the compost pile, and apparently the canteloupe revived itself. I transplanted it back into the bed with the pumpkins.
The blueberry bushes already have tons of blueberries on them and the flowers only started to fall off last week. By July, when they're ready to pick I should have roughly enough blueberries to make pancakes for all of New England. My intention is to learn how to make preserves this year...we'll see how that pans out. Also, I'm going to have a B.Y.O.B. (bring your own bucket) party sometime in July...
I live in NE I'll take some pancakes :)
We have four Blueberry bushes coming, can't wait for them to look like this next year.
Posted by: Jody Frederick | June 04, 2009 at 12:35 PM
I think my blueberry bushes are about 40 years old :)
Posted by: Em | June 05, 2009 at 10:08 AM