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Jun. 15th, 2011 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinThe kids were coopertive this morning, so I got in an hour's worth of push-mowing. All of the play yard, around the garage and veggie garden, under the north side of the pines, and around some of the piles of lumber in back.
Not at all exciting, I know, but it counts as progress.
Replanted some of the hills of squash out in the garden, because the first planting hadn't done anything. So now, instead of horn of plenty yellow crookneck, there's more winter squashes, zucchini, and pumpkins. I'm hoping I left room for a few sweet potato vines. The slips I took a few days ago are almost rooted enough to plant out. Definitely going to buy plants next year; getting sweet potatoes to grow enough for cuttings took forever, and really cut into my growing season.
Did get the rest of my tomato cages set up and planted, which makes 10 plants. Mostly Early Girl, pllus Brown Berry, Matts Wild Cherry, and a random seedling that's probably the wild cherry. I'm staring at 2 flats of tomato seedlings, and wondering if D is going to get back in time to plant them, or if I should stuff them in the ground and be done, and where I'm going to find/make that space. I can probably squeeze 3 more in where the others are, without blocking the greenhouse door or the compost bin, and maybe 5 up with the rhubarb, there's a lot of space there. Which is 8, out of the 40 or so that need planting, plus the pot of random seedlings*. Maybe I'll start putting the old flimsy tomato cages in open spots in my flowerbeds. Not varmit-proof, but they'd be in the ground and have a chance to do something.
I tried taking wisteria cuttings again this year, and they've failed again. Very frustrating.
I'm hoping for a calm evening this week, so I can get out to the back corner or our land with another tank of roundup. The first batch made a dent in the Great Poison Ivy Forest, but it's goi ng to take regular applications the rest of the summer to kill it off permanently.
By spent some quality time this weekend prepping to finish the siding on the east side of the house. The bathroom window that Salvage Guy installed will have to be taken out and redone...the frame is out of square, by a lot. And it wasn't done right to begin with, which I'm sure doesn't help the crooked part, or the leaks every tim.e it rains hard part. Grrrrr. Anyway, with the fiddly stuff done now, he can get the rest done in the evening a little at a time. At least as far as that damn window.
* I found a bowl of seed packets in the garage last month. Mostly moldly, all old, so I tossed them in an old pot of soil to see if anything sprouted. The tomatoes did, lushly, so I've got 50 or so mixed seedlings. Naturally, I didn't expect much germination, so I didn't label a thing.
Not at all exciting, I know, but it counts as progress.
Replanted some of the hills of squash out in the garden, because the first planting hadn't done anything. So now, instead of horn of plenty yellow crookneck, there's more winter squashes, zucchini, and pumpkins. I'm hoping I left room for a few sweet potato vines. The slips I took a few days ago are almost rooted enough to plant out. Definitely going to buy plants next year; getting sweet potatoes to grow enough for cuttings took forever, and really cut into my growing season.
Did get the rest of my tomato cages set up and planted, which makes 10 plants. Mostly Early Girl, pllus Brown Berry, Matts Wild Cherry, and a random seedling that's probably the wild cherry. I'm staring at 2 flats of tomato seedlings, and wondering if D is going to get back in time to plant them, or if I should stuff them in the ground and be done, and where I'm going to find/make that space. I can probably squeeze 3 more in where the others are, without blocking the greenhouse door or the compost bin, and maybe 5 up with the rhubarb, there's a lot of space there. Which is 8, out of the 40 or so that need planting, plus the pot of random seedlings*. Maybe I'll start putting the old flimsy tomato cages in open spots in my flowerbeds. Not varmit-proof, but they'd be in the ground and have a chance to do something.
I tried taking wisteria cuttings again this year, and they've failed again. Very frustrating.
I'm hoping for a calm evening this week, so I can get out to the back corner or our land with another tank of roundup. The first batch made a dent in the Great Poison Ivy Forest, but it's goi ng to take regular applications the rest of the summer to kill it off permanently.
By spent some quality time this weekend prepping to finish the siding on the east side of the house. The bathroom window that Salvage Guy installed will have to be taken out and redone...the frame is out of square, by a lot. And it wasn't done right to begin with, which I'm sure doesn't help the crooked part, or the leaks every tim.e it rains hard part. Grrrrr. Anyway, with the fiddly stuff done now, he can get the rest done in the evening a little at a time. At least as far as that damn window.
* I found a bowl of seed packets in the garage last month. Mostly moldly, all old, so I tossed them in an old pot of soil to see if anything sprouted. The tomatoes did, lushly, so I've got 50 or so mixed seedlings. Naturally, I didn't expect much germination, so I didn't label a thing.
