We had SNOW yesterday....real, honest to goodness, oh my looky there SNOW. Came blowing in from the northwest like a blizzard for a few minutes. None of it "stuck" but it was so cold that, if it had persisted, we'd have seen accumulation (do people living in non-snow areas use terms like "accumulation" and "wind chill"? Larry?)
Before the snow event, I was able to put in a couple of good solid hours of work on the Pond Circle area. I pulled up and reset the front of one curved bed, where it had sunk. The beds are edged in what I call "brick-rack"...bricks set up on their ends and leaned over about 45 degrees. I pulled them out, hauled in 4 loads of dirt from the new Rock Garden on the hill, leveled off the area, then reset the bricks. Then I raked off the composed mulch from the path and put that in the bed. Looks much nicer. I think I'll go ahead and lift/reset all the brick edging on all three beds. Everything is starting to sink and look a bit like a mouth full of broken and crooked teeth.
The next big project there is to drain and empty the pond, put in a new liner, and replant. I'm waiting for warmer weather. Timing is critical: it has to be warm enough so I don't freeze doing the work, but not so warm that the frog's will have spawned. I don't want to disturb any frog spawn in the water.
In the process of lifting the brick edging and tidying up, I also removed a small patch of lily of the valley and transplanted it to the Front Bed; I'm hoping to move a lot more of it out of the woods and into that spot. I also lifted and moved 6 good sized clumps of mini-comfrey up to the newly cleared area above the Fairy Glen. I hope it does well up there; it tends to run (I wouldn't call it invasive, but it is "vigourous") and I'd like to see it cover a fairly large area up there.
I'm considering renting one of those small front tine cultivators to scuff up some areas where I'd like to plant grass seed. The areas are just big enough that doing it by hand with a hoe/rake/shovel will be onerous. It will depend on how much it costs to rent one of these...I'm not shelling out big bucks for something that I can do myself but am just too lazy to want to do.
Sowed sweet peas in pots today; hope to put them out in the big decorative planters later this month. Potted up 3 nice tiny little weeping willow cuttings that rooted very well in a green glass bottle on my kitchen windowsill. I have had a lot of luck with that bottle and cuttings...I wonder if the green color has something to do with it?
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