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Apr. 9th, 2014 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckScott did the work on the raised beds yesterday. He transplanted the rose bush again (we moved it last fall because we thought the raised bed where it was would be dug up by the sewer people). Time will tell if it has survived. If it didn't, we'll replace it. Of course, I'm not sure we're taking care of it right. I think it needs to be cut back or needed to be in the fall. I have only the vaguest idea of how to care for a rose. My usual method for dealing with plants is benign neglect. I do a spurt of work early in the year and then water occasionally.
Scott dug up the dead plants. I decided to get rid of the sage plants rather than fuss with trying to move them. They'd sort of been dumped, willy-nilly, and were big lumps in awkward positions. Then he spread some dirt in the medium sized raised bed. I think he put in six bags. It wasn't enough. I thought it might not be.
We need some mulch, too, to go around the raised beds. I had ground cover on one side (ajuga), but the sewer line guys buried it in dirt. I'm hoping it will come back-- ajuga is tenacious-- but I can't assume that it will.
I need to cut back the winter savory severely. It's trying to take over the big raised bed, and a lot of it is ugly, bare stems. Hopefully, I can chop it back without damaging it. I'm just not sure when to do it. I suppose I could dig it up and replace it with a younger plant, one that's a bit tamer. I just hate to kill a healthy plant.
Scott dug up the dead plants. I decided to get rid of the sage plants rather than fuss with trying to move them. They'd sort of been dumped, willy-nilly, and were big lumps in awkward positions. Then he spread some dirt in the medium sized raised bed. I think he put in six bags. It wasn't enough. I thought it might not be.
We need some mulch, too, to go around the raised beds. I had ground cover on one side (ajuga), but the sewer line guys buried it in dirt. I'm hoping it will come back-- ajuga is tenacious-- but I can't assume that it will.
I need to cut back the winter savory severely. It's trying to take over the big raised bed, and a lot of it is ugly, bare stems. Hopefully, I can chop it back without damaging it. I'm just not sure when to do it. I suppose I could dig it up and replace it with a younger plant, one that's a bit tamer. I just hate to kill a healthy plant.
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Date: 2014-04-10 12:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-11 01:25 pm (UTC)Now we have to replace the thingamajig for hanging the hose and figure out where we put the hose. We may still have the thingamajig-- I think we took it down before the sewer guys came rather than leaving it for them. If we didn't, it's gone.