Don't You Just Love Rocktober*?
It's a beautiful Rocktober* Day in Colorado.
(Non-Rockies fans may not grasp that the month between September and November has been renamed. And is being registered as a trademark. Seeing the Rockies still playing baseball in October is such a novel and unnerving experience.)
It's supposed to be 75 today so I'm going to be out and planting more bulbs. That's because it is supposed to be 39 and snowing tomorrow.
100 + more bulbs to plant in hard dry soil in and around established perennials. After my first trial last weekend, I went on line to discover the secret to planting lots of bulbs. Because those garden books I read talk lightly of planting 5,000 in one's yard. The defining moment was when I came across the story of a man who planted 400 bulbs with a pick-axe.
Precisely.
So I've bought a bulb auger, a sort of long dirt drill that you attach to your power drill. It's a miracle. It better be.
I also have to prepare the 400 sf bed for wildflowers.
I figure I can put the finishing touches on my Detroit presentations at Sacred Heart Seminary on Sunday. When it's snowing.
posted by Sherry W @ 8:20 AM
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4 Comments:
Sherry, another invaluable tool for the gardener is a geologist's rock hammer & pick. Especially the ones made my Eastwing that have a rubber clad metal handle. Ideal for levering stubborn weeds out of difficult places - best trick though is first to leave a hose soaking for a half hour at the spot and then they come out sooo easy - dandelions with entire roots. The rock pick is also handy for digging out the side of the road if you ever have to change a wheel and can't jack it high enough. Just dig some terra firma out under it first - not where the jack goes though;-)
Sherry, another invaluable tool for the gardener is a geologist's rock hammer & pick. Especially the ones made my Eastwing that have a rubber clad metal handle. Ideal for levering stubborn weeds out of difficult places - best trick though is first to leave a hose soaking for a half hour at the spot and then they come out sooo easy - dandelions with entire roots. The rock pick is also handy for digging out the side of the road if you ever have to change a wheel and can't jack it high enough. Just dig some terra firma out under it first - not where the jack goes though;-)
Thanks Stephen!
My mighty auger worked and I did get all the bulbs in, fertilized, covered, mulched, and watered. It was actually hot today and I went in to get out of the sun for an hour. Afterwards, sat on the patio and enjoyed the breeze and sunny late afternoon. It very difficult to believe that the high tomorrow will be 36 F as predicted since it is still 66 F right now!
Yes, weeding is so easy when we've had on of our summer thunderstorms with 1 inch of rain! But our dry fall and winters - that's something else. I did water beforehand but it would take a lot of water to soften some of that soil up!
We had a public holiday today, and I was hoping to get some of my overdue paperwork completed. I was hoping for a dismal grey day as forecast, so I didn't mind sitting at my desk at home, looking outside at the rain pouring down on the other side of the window. It started dismal grey as hoped. Then the sun came out. Oh geeee, not fair!
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