Gardening

[Mach123]

The forsythia hedge is coming along saving me from the next door neighbors. We have catnip from last year , looks like and couple lavender actually made it . The moon flowers aren’t coming back but I jave thousands of seeds .if any are good still there were some mold issues from the pods . It’s way too much work but I sure done cool things I dug out sll
Under the fence to stop weeds and I switched the lawn to clover /‘s included in front of the fence I tilled it all by hand with my pick axe . Pay no attention to my little visitor in the hole, it was inactive but since I saw it I’ve taken steps . They love to eat those little green blocks which decreases the surplus population.

 

[Rose White]

Hard to believe these elegant perfumed beauties are considered weeds!

 

[Mach123]

Well I’ve done more than I thought I would or I intended . The things I try to do have not gone very well however I’m realizing that if I just leave them alone and cut the weeds back, you know nobody’s really gonna notice but me. They’re gonna probably stay where the flowers and all the other stuff because I just didn’t do it this year. I kept a record of seeds though. I kept all the packages. And I bought a few plants. But I’m really trying to go for perennials everywhere. I don’t wanna deal with it and I don’t wanna water anything. I don’t mind doing a little bit. The hedges are killing me. I know why my wife likes them the way they are. It is cool and you can hide behind them on front porch is like hidden now behind a beautiful gigantic hedge, but you have to trim it and it’s way harder than I thought it was gonna be to try and keep up with that. The robin is building a nest there for the second round of eggs. It’s right outside the front door and my wife sleeps right there she’s not going to be happy about the red Red Robin belting out his song before sunrise. I did end up throwing all my moonflower seeds on “the dune” down the beach I hope lots of them grow . I’m still shocked I found them there . Right at the high water mark in fact the plant where I first got the seeds was washed away by the flood. It must’ve been there a couple months at least because it had seeded . There are a few in the yard in spite of my efforts to keep them from seeding . They’ll probably always grow around the neighborhood now .

 

[Mach123]

My spring regime sorta failed and I had a plan today. Since the YouTube algorithm can hear you mine heard me and started suggesting planting perennials in July. Well I’m excited . The whole idea was to plant perennials and not water but the mistake I made was I planted about 12 packages of seeds out of which I got no plants whatsoever and I returned them all to Home Depot today. Or I couldn’t re turn the seeds. But I walked in there with the seed packages and she looked them up on my credit card and gave me back the money because I didn’t have the receipt which is really unusual cause I save every single receipt compulsively.. anyway they had a rack at Home Depot and they had a rack at Lowe’s of bulbs that were 50% off and they took them away this week. I guess when I decided to do this so now I have to order some stuff on Amazon that’s OK. I found some videos that made a bunch of suggestions about perfect plants and it was full of really good information and you know I just have to get a few more bulbs and I’m really in pretty good shape for this year. Nothing spectacular like a few years ago with the pumpkins and the sunflowers and I’ll let jazz but that’s fine. It was all too much work anyway. It was beautiful though. Plus, they don’t want us to water this year anymore so yeah I wanna do perennials like I have Iris you know out of my front yard and they do wonderfully every year and I never have to do a single thing same thing with the day lollies come up every year and they put on a great show and you never have to do anything so yeah that’s what I’m trying to do. Finish the yard off with things just like that and I was very excited to learn that July is not too late to plant a lot of these things. It’s actually better because the soil is warm at least that’s what the video said.

 

[Mach123]

I just got that kit in the mail and I was awfully surprised to find bulbs that were at different states of sprouting. So the story of the back garden this year was I tried to switch over to all perennials and I tried to do it with seeds. Out of which I had absolutely nothing not a single sprout and I actually returned all the seeds to Home Depot and get my money back. So it’s all been sitting back there all summer doing nothing and I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do and I was looking around online and I found people saying that you could plant bulbs in July. There other people that say no, but I decided to do it because I have this big patch of bare ground back there the only thing it’s getting used for as a cat box cause every time I dig anything up he thinks I’m making him a new litter box. So I just went out this morning and planted 70 bulbs more or less. I don’t even know what they are. They weren’t marked. I just bought that kit from my last post and put them all in. Wish me luck. The theory is they should all be like the iris’s and come up by themselves every year and nobody has to do anything to them. I sincerely hope that’s the case..

 

[Mach123]

Well, this year didn’t go so well. I didn’t get any clover or I mean some you know but it’s mostly grass and weeds so basically I just have a lawn mow. I bought a whole bag of mixed bulbs and put them in way too randomly I should have bunched them all together. I’ll probably do that in the fall. The problem is I can’t tell a weed from a plant except in some cases when they come up like the day Lillie’s are obvious.


Edit next day

All of the upcoming chores haunt me I would go so far as to say I don’t know what to say. It’s just like I have a cracked board you know on the porch in the house and like I think about it day and night and every time I pull in the driveway it’s the only thing I can see in. It drives me crazy. Of course my wife keeps me apprised with hints on what needs to be done. Very helpful. It’s like when the lawn gets to be too high.

This particular story is about a bush that’s outside my cellar door. Any of you who have looked at my garden photos have seen it last year. It was behind the moon flowers, which were really huge about 6 feet high but anyway the thing that grows about 2 feet a week. Exaggeration. But it grows fast. So my wife decided that she had to have a little trellis out there and the bush right next to it and oh you know it provides privacy. The neighbors can’t see it and all this shit but I have to climb up a ladder to do this with the hedge clipper, which is dangerous and the ladder is very heavy and I keep telling her over and over again I can’t do these things anymore. You wouldn’t believe me my wife called me into not ever having to put supper on the table. If she didn’t feel like it I let her get away with it. We don’t have regular meals. It destroyed our family in one way, but it’s part of the food sickness and I have to be I have to be considerate of addicts.

Anyway, I was in a funny mood when I was coming home yesterday, and my daughter was bugging the shit out of me and I thought you know what I can get out of the car and take that bush to pieces and then take a shower. That’s a lot of energy for later in the afternoon for me you know what a lot of times I get in bed like 3 o’clock.

But I came home and I put on a pair of shorts and I got my hedge clippers and my saws all and I cut that f*cking thing down to a knob. I still have to take care of all the stuff that I cut off it, but I have to say I hope I don’t have to do anything to it now until next year. It’s basically nothing left but branches but believe me within two weeks it’ll be completely covered with leaves again. I hate that thing.