Seedfork's blog: Still snowing leaves

Posted on Mar 17, 2015 7:07 AM

Nice day, partly cloudy but warm and dry.Great gardening day!
Yesterday I use the hoe and shovel to cut a border around the vegetable patch and the long bed running the length of the inside of the fence. I also cut a border around the new bog daylily bed, the weeds and grass were already trying to encroach on by pristine bed, and I was not going to allow that to happen. After I got the borders cut I mulched them real good to help keep the weeds and grass down hopefully for a month or so at least.

I bought two lawn mower blades at Lowe's , one for mulching the leaves and one for later when the grass starts growing. Had to run to town to get gas for the truck and the lawn mower. I cleaned the air filter, added some oil, put the new mulching blade on and managed to get all the leaves in the front mulched and added to the beds.
I had tomatoes, peppers (yes some finally did germinate), cucumbers etc. that needed to be potted up. So I rounded up enough trays and larger plastic pots (still small) to get them all potted up. That took a lot longer than I had expected. There were still many little cells that had as many as three nice little plants in them, so I ended up with way more little pots than I had expected.
Then I got another tray and filled it with little plastic pots and planted more cucumbers, squash. I still need to plant the cosmos seedlings out in the garden, but it was after seven when I came in and I needed to stop before I got too tired. I also managed to get a couple of hours of watering done today, things are growing so fast now and even though it has been cloudy and misty rainy for the past couple of days we really did not get that much rain and the warmer sun now really dries things out fast.
My supply of finished compost is running very low now, I think I should have just enough to get me through this potting up season. It is just about time for the grass to get growing and that will supply me with what I need to get some more compost piles started, I have plenty of leaves.
I am still seeing new daylilies popping up, I love that. The amaryllis are sending up bloom stalks every where. I planted a lot of new bulbs and plants last summer so I should have my best season of amaryllis and daylilies ever. My first shipment of daylilies this year is suppose to arrive next week, can hardly wait.
I noticed lots of volunteer seedlings coming up even after I pulled up so many of them, I am going to let some of these grow and see what they are. Some I think are purple coneflowers, mexican sunflowers, hopefully some zinnias, could be lots of things. Just hope not too many weeds!
The Dutch Iris are just about ready to burst into bloom, within the next day or two I hope. They are just beautiful to me, I planted more of them this year and hope to be able to divide some of the older ones after they bloom, I have had some for three years now, maybe four.
Early in the year I transplanted two different varieties of daylilies, they were very small, one variety just a little smaller than the other. I was looking at them today, and the difference in them is amazing. The small variety is still very tiny, almost no growth at all. The larger variety is grown multiple times larger, it is growing so fast!
Tomorrow I will start mulching the leaves in the back, that should be a big job. It would probably take two days at least.



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