Today's to dos and other stuff
May. 18th, 2012 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
averygoodun42Hopefully making a list will provide a little motivation? Or at least focus?
Plant veggie seeds! (after school)
fertilize gardens
redo the front garden line per landscape dude's recommendation
fertilize & water house plants
laundry
sweep & vacuum first level
mop/scrub kitchen floor
toilets and sinks
cook dinner (grill it? hmm... Kebobs!)
write essay
play with fabric?
buy iodine
exchange car for bike; pick up kid from school (be off at 2:15)
While I was out fertilizing the back garden, I noticed one of my Siberian irises that I just put in has a bud! Also, the daylilies that were either mixed up in the hosta roots or were mistakenly planted right next to the hostas have loads of buds on them! They all should be blooming in about 10 days or so. Yay!
I'm actually very pleased with how the yard and garden are progressing. My heuchera, which had dwindled down to pathetic little things due to poor soil and salty conditions, are starting to bush out and grow! I don't like where they're placed, but they can certainly stay where they are until they have to be dug up next summer. My grape is starting to leaf out again, after I massacred its vines in early March. I need to start training it soon. Another peony is showing signs of life, and it's particularly gratifying because I was sure that was the one that was going to die. And two nights ago I made a salad with the thinnings of kale that I'd planted, thinking (erroneously) that the chard seeds I'd sown had been killed off by the frosts. Well, the chard have sprouted (and are about three inches high at this point), so the kale got uprooted. And was yummy. Particularly the second day.
And... the landscape dude just came around, and they'll be by next week to sod. He said they'll re-level the dirt we put down so that the ground actually slopes away from the house (something I tried to communicate with Geoff, but, well, by the end of the weekend I wasn't going to push it as he was completely wiped). My front garden is going to be a little larger than I wanted, and I don't think I'll have room for the dogwood shrub because the magnolia is going to go closer to the power pole (per landscape dude's recommendations) rather than the house, but I think it'll still look nice in the end. The dogwood can go out back, if they end up taking out all the swamp trees as I expect them to. It would look very nice back there.
But anyway, it looks like I'll be able to plant the rest of my seeds out front very soon! Yay! Who knows, maybe everything will be in by the time the backyard flowers are blooming. Wouldn't that be nice?
But I guess I'd better get to work now. Lots to cross off my list, and not a whole heck of a lot of time to do it in. *sigh*
fertilize gardens
redo the front garden line per landscape dude's recommendation
fertilize & water house plants
laundry
mop/scrub kitchen floor
cook dinner (grill it? hmm... Kebobs!)
write essay
play with fabric?
buy iodine
While I was out fertilizing the back garden, I noticed one of my Siberian irises that I just put in has a bud! Also, the daylilies that were either mixed up in the hosta roots or were mistakenly planted right next to the hostas have loads of buds on them! They all should be blooming in about 10 days or so. Yay!
I'm actually very pleased with how the yard and garden are progressing. My heuchera, which had dwindled down to pathetic little things due to poor soil and salty conditions, are starting to bush out and grow! I don't like where they're placed, but they can certainly stay where they are until they have to be dug up next summer. My grape is starting to leaf out again, after I massacred its vines in early March. I need to start training it soon. Another peony is showing signs of life, and it's particularly gratifying because I was sure that was the one that was going to die. And two nights ago I made a salad with the thinnings of kale that I'd planted, thinking (erroneously) that the chard seeds I'd sown had been killed off by the frosts. Well, the chard have sprouted (and are about three inches high at this point), so the kale got uprooted. And was yummy. Particularly the second day.
And... the landscape dude just came around, and they'll be by next week to sod. He said they'll re-level the dirt we put down so that the ground actually slopes away from the house (something I tried to communicate with Geoff, but, well, by the end of the weekend I wasn't going to push it as he was completely wiped). My front garden is going to be a little larger than I wanted, and I don't think I'll have room for the dogwood shrub because the magnolia is going to go closer to the power pole (per landscape dude's recommendations) rather than the house, but I think it'll still look nice in the end. The dogwood can go out back, if they end up taking out all the swamp trees as I expect them to. It would look very nice back there.
But anyway, it looks like I'll be able to plant the rest of my seeds out front very soon! Yay! Who knows, maybe everything will be in by the time the backyard flowers are blooming. Wouldn't that be nice?
But I guess I'd better get to work now. Lots to cross off my list, and not a whole heck of a lot of time to do it in. *sigh*
