garden notes

Today I planted (and where)..

3 'Blush Charm' peonies (was a package of two, but a little chunk broke off with roots and buds so why not?) One near my altar, among the lilies. One along the path up the west side of the herb shed, behind sage and daffodils and 'Superstition' iris. The little piece in the liatris patch.

1 'Bowl of Beauty' peony, up the slope fromthe redbud Stan gave me, among threadleaf mountain mint and daylilies and melissa.

1 pink lily of the valley, in front of my altar, behind the heuchera. Was a package of 2, potted one for the neighbor.

10 'Albion' strawberries, in the whiskey barrel until their bed is ready.

4 rhubarb plants, potted until their bed is ready.

8 sweet potatoes, potted and in greenhouse to grow for starts for the garden.

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The kids have decided to do their best to top yesterday's destructive escapades. And have succeeded, I think. I'm too irritated to type it all, but it involved a drawing on the floor of The Miss's room, in poop, and trashing the kitchen twice. Oh, and undoing all of the knitting I got done yesterday, plus a bit.

They are banished to their rooms to play quietly until I get it all cleaned up, on threat of something dire.

And I haven't managed to do most of the pre-Mom-visit cleaning I'd wanted to todayM because I've got to watch the kids so close lately. This would be one of the rare days when I wished I had a grandparent close enough to take them for a couple hours. Or that one of the people who said they'd be here for us actually was.

(No, they weren't that much better this morning. I strapped them into their swings while I was planting, and tried to be quick so they wouldn't get too bored. Which works because I've trained them to wait in their swings while I mow the yard.)


ETA: add laying hands on my lace-knitting-in-progress to their sins today. One of them pulled 8" or so off the needles, and that section unravelled between 3 and 6 (I think) rows. And I'm afraid they snagged and actually ripped another section, but I can't check that until after they're in bed. Dammit.