Well, like many good things, my plans didn't work out exactly as I had in mind this weekend. The idea was to get the mulch down, do loads of cleanup, prepare the baskets and containers & plant 72 impatiens (other plants are scheduled for next week), and get our vegetable peat pots in the ground. Hmmmmm. That may have been a bit overly ambitious!
Saturday was a very good day - not to hot, but pretty clear with sunshine. So I went about doing the plan. First was a stop at the garden center for pine bark mulch to freshen things up after a long winter. (All winters are long as far as I can tell!) The three cubic foot bags of pine bark mini-nuggets mulch always have a little moisture with them, which, of course, makes them pretty darn heavy. So I got three of them....that's all that will fit in the trunk of our car. Bought the plants. Then headed home and unloaded the mulch. Oh! What was that twinge I felt in my lower back? Never mind.
After 5 hours, it was just time to quit for the day! And start again on Sunday......with a trip for three more bags of mulch for the "walking" areas - those areas that are not garden. In case you didn't know, or just forgot, all of our garden area rests on a solid foundation of 6 to 8 inches of concrete. Sunday was pretty much a repeat of Saturday, except that much of it was spent in the courtyard area, as well. Lois was a huge help getting the bags of mulch in and using her talent to decorate the courtyard walls and deck. So, we're close to being done! But not a single vegetable plant has been moved out to the bed where it will spend the summer!
With wet weather predicted for much of the week, it will probably be next weekend that we get the "official" start of the garden season! And it will start with a trip to get just three more bags of mulch...
I hope to see you later in the week!
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