Aha! (No, not the band.)
Apr. 13th, 2012 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
averygoodun42I finally figured out what my garden map meant by BES! Black-Eyed Susans! Wheee! It was rather slow coming to me, but eventually my memory somehow wrangled it out of the void, and now I can look forward to cheerful, yellow blooms come late August.
It was kind of neat having the suspense build as to what that little plant was going to grow into, but, you know, there's still plenty of suspense left where the garden is concerned without that bit. Like, how many of the ferns survived? What the heck is that broad-leafed weed? Will anything bloom this year beyond the bulbs? And mums, seeing as they bloomed last fall despite the late transplanting.
It was really nice to wander into the back yard today after picking Page up from the bus stop (as he requested of me; he does not like autonomy, the weirdo) and see that all my astilbe survived and are growing. Three ferns have definitely survived with another two looking probable. The ligularia are absolutely tiny at the moment (as are the huechera and brunnera, the poor, stressed things), and the yellow loosestrife is definitely going to be a thuggy little thing. *pets*
I fertilized today, back and front, and will make an effort to do so on a regular basis for the time I'm around during the spring and summer. Hopefully that will alleviate most of the stress the poor transplants are suffering. Because, boy! What a difference good nutrition makes! The daffodil bulbs out front have finally come up and bloomed, and they are such tiny little midgets! They are from the same batch of bulbs as the ones I planted out back, but in the nitrogen depleted soil, they had to go only on their own stored resources, and they're runts because of it. I think the front garden will be getting fertilized twice as often as the back... It needs it.
(I will probably end up, after the garden finishes blooming, dig everything up and amend the soil liek whoa before replanting everything. It's too bad that the soil the landscapers brought in can't be hauled back out by them, but ach well. I'll make do. It's not like adding another couple of inches to the yard would be a bad thing.)
But now I need to go do homework. I have a quiz on Tuesday, a new accounting chapter for Wednesday and the term paper is due on Friday. So, busy week ahead.
Happy weekend!
It was kind of neat having the suspense build as to what that little plant was going to grow into, but, you know, there's still plenty of suspense left where the garden is concerned without that bit. Like, how many of the ferns survived? What the heck is that broad-leafed weed? Will anything bloom this year beyond the bulbs? And mums, seeing as they bloomed last fall despite the late transplanting.
It was really nice to wander into the back yard today after picking Page up from the bus stop (as he requested of me; he does not like autonomy, the weirdo) and see that all my astilbe survived and are growing. Three ferns have definitely survived with another two looking probable. The ligularia are absolutely tiny at the moment (as are the huechera and brunnera, the poor, stressed things), and the yellow loosestrife is definitely going to be a thuggy little thing. *pets*
I fertilized today, back and front, and will make an effort to do so on a regular basis for the time I'm around during the spring and summer. Hopefully that will alleviate most of the stress the poor transplants are suffering. Because, boy! What a difference good nutrition makes! The daffodil bulbs out front have finally come up and bloomed, and they are such tiny little midgets! They are from the same batch of bulbs as the ones I planted out back, but in the nitrogen depleted soil, they had to go only on their own stored resources, and they're runts because of it. I think the front garden will be getting fertilized twice as often as the back... It needs it.
(I will probably end up, after the garden finishes blooming, dig everything up and amend the soil liek whoa before replanting everything. It's too bad that the soil the landscapers brought in can't be hauled back out by them, but ach well. I'll make do. It's not like adding another couple of inches to the yard would be a bad thing.)
But now I need to go do homework. I have a quiz on Tuesday, a new accounting chapter for Wednesday and the term paper is due on Friday. So, busy week ahead.
Happy weekend!
