My routine in the daylily/iris/everything-else garden (I post much of this in the iris forum on
their long-standing "What Did You Do... " thread) is of a grind these days (similar to, but not exactly like, Larry's). Take seedling pictures. Collect pollen (store if necessary). Pollinate. Mark crosses. Make notes. Water lots of pots. Deadhead. Prune. Fertilize as necessary. Weed. (At night, upload and Photoshop/crop/etc all of the seedling photos and label them. Try to find time to look at crosses as a whole, to see who the good parents are, and maybe which seedlings to cross, to what.)
There are some random potted perennials which I need to find places for, and plant them out. (In two cases, I need to dig and move other plants, first. That's not happening until I get the rest of my kitchen garden planted (very late, I might add).)
I also,
STILL have several bareroot daylilies in tubs which need to be potted up (I just received another one in the mail
), and rusty daylilies to toss. (I keep a few rust buckets to test any promising seedlings with, but for the most part, if a daylily rusts, out it goes.)
We think we finally, mostly, nailed down the irrigation problems in one seedling bed. Half of that bed is dry as a bone, and I lost some number of seedlings there. (I figure the survivors must be really tough.) I'm going to do a few more days of lugging water to it (large watering can) just to get the soil moisture up; hopefully the drip will be adequate after that. (The other 2 and 1/2 beds are also on drip and all of those seedlings are fine.)
