I spent the bulk of a Saturday doing clean-up, raking, transplanting, and pruning around the yard. When I was finished, I had dirty fingernails, a full green can, and a very heavy bucket of amaryllis bulbs, but the yard didn’t really look any better.
Me in the spring will thank Me from the fall.
Gardening for me is always the triumph of hope over experience.
First, I had to make gopher cages. These were for tossing over the tops of broccoli plants, that the squirrels already found and ate the leaves off of. Might be too late. Gotta try anyway!
I buy wire at the local hardware store, which they cut into 24″ squares for me, and then I force it around a bucket and wire it together, all while trying to not get bloody from the ends.
Pippin doesn’t understand all the fuss. Why don’t I just kill and eat those gophers?
These naked lady bulbs only produced 2 blossoms, so it was time to dig them out. They completely filled a 5 gallon bucket, and weighed about 15 lbs. Now I get to decide where to bury them next, somewhere not too important because I wrecked a lot of roots prying them apart.
These are just magical. I put them in the ground, forget about them, and then in August when everything looks terrible, they bloom.
Tucker didn’t really care what I was doing. He just wanted to be with me.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LGM!
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That’s such a great way to think about it – Spring You will be grateful that Fall You did all that work! I love how the kitties hang out with you.
Me too, Michelle. I love it when they follow me around, except when I am working near the road. Gotta sneak away if I want to work there!
“I put them in the ground, forget about them, and then in August when everything looks terrible, they bloom.”
That’s my kind of gardening–low maintenance!
Sharon, they do need a tiny bit of maintenance. When their leaves shrivel at the end of spring, they look terrible. So I have to clean up those brown leaves before forgetting about them until August.