On Saturday morning I got up at 5:30AM after nearly 9 hours of sleep. I again didn’t want to clean up the kitchen, finish laundry, or do peas. It was another lovely day, so I went to the gardens at 6:15AM.
I planned to clean out the East Shed garden. It had been cleaned out and planted on June 11th, so it wasn’t quite so bad. I had to start with pruning the 7 Sisters rose back and up so I could work under it.
I quickly discovered this tiny nest in the overhang on the end of the shed. There was nothing in it. But I suspected the robin had another brood in the other nest. No heads popped up when I pruned so I guess they haven’t hatched.
I deadheaded as much as I could and the right photo is when I was done.
I got all the weeds out and found some more plants to plant:
2 Columbine
2 Sweet William
1 Parsley
1 Alyssum
1 Zinnia
1 Forget-Me-Not
2 Impatiens
1 Snapdragon
While I was over at the cold frame, I took all the leftover plants and put them in compost and cleaned out all the ones that had died from the ones I planned to plant. In the end, I had 2 trays left to plant.
When I’d gotten my photos and made my notes, it was only 8:30AM, so I decided to tackle the New East garden. It wasn’t in the sun yet, but would be soon.
It was in very bad shape, not having been touched since June 11th either. For some reason, it was far weedier than the other garden.
But in spite of the weeds, the plants in this garden had fared better than in the East Shed. I didn’t need to plant any more. One sad note, there was only 1 stalk of bleeding heart left and I pulled it up by mistake. I’ll have to get a new plant next year.
I finished at 10:30AM, made my notes and got my photos, cleaned up and went in for a shower. I rested a while, ate lunch, harvested zucchini and cukes, and was in bed by noon.
I read and dozed until 4PM and got up, just to sit watching videos until supper.
On Sunday I have to mow the yard and at the barn, about 4 hours of work. I’m hoping I can get the kitchen cleaned up, the laundry finished, and maybe even get the peas done before going out to mow. I have to wait for the grass to dry.
I have to finish by 1PM as I have to get cleaned up and be ready to go to the concert at 2:15PM. So a busy day and no nap.
So sad to hear about your 1 stalk of bleeding heart. 🥲
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So, you found a robin nest in the east garden. Hope you’ll see the baby birds coming out soon.
The weeds look so green and healthy! That’s quite a good job to clear all the weeds to let other plants flourishing. I used to pull out long seedlings which were left in pot plants by my gardener.
A family of small swallows have been living in a nest in a small tree outside my window for more than five years. I was amazed that they kept the same nest. I thought they would have moved to some big trees. But all the baby birds left the nest and went away.
Hope you could get all the tasks done as planned.
The way you take photos while writing means that you always have your readers at heart a the time
Well done
You did a great deal of work at the garden yesterday, clearing and planting. I can only imagine how happy you'd be when harvest time comes. It's good you took some rest after all the efforts. Thanks for sharing and Happy Sunday.
I’m glad you could finally tackle the New East garden because you’ve been talking about it since a long time now
Well done
Yes, it was really bugging me, how bad it had gotten. Glad it's done!
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