So...there's been a bit of a gap here, sorry bout that friends. Not in gardening...just in blogging. But today and yesterday there was progress. Thanks to Sister Karen. Fourth of July there was a bit of extreme landscaping she helped with...we knocked down the overgrowth of the windmill. Last year it was Laurel who did the job all by herself. It's a miserable task and really we need a plan so that we don't have to do it again...something involving Round-up I suppose. This year..Karen and I did the cutting and Greg ran the refuse through the grinder. Bunches of bug bites we got for our efforts and a few insults from a broody hen who had a clutch hidden deep in the overgrowth. The rooster gave Greg some heat when he chased the hen off her nest. Karen carefully transplanted the eggs to the laying box in the coop....alas...the transplant wasn't successful...the hen took the opportunity to return to the roost and quit the clutch. .
And today...I pushed out the west edge of the north-south bed and planted two hydrangeas. Hoping there will be adequate sun there for them. I have four more buckets to add tomorrow...of spirea, and thinking about adding ferns around those plants. I saw some big buckets of ferns marked down to five bucks. No zone information though.
Hollyhocks are in bloom, although there aren't so many of them. They must be tasty to deer. But without the fence around them the chickens have managed to knock out the Japanese beetles who ate them up last year. Speaking of predators, Greg spotted a family of five mink in the ditch the day after one of our hens went missing. And remembering my dedication for this blog to Lei and Karen...just to let you know I've been keeping up with the mowing too. Sigh...miss you Lei.. and Karen hope that you are starting to poke around in that greenhouse. Love, Log
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