Tasks - 4/18-19/09

This weekend:

* Thinned 1/3 arugula

* Removed items and spent tulips from cut flower raised bed and used good dirt for other projects (planning to move this bed).

* Planted columnar apple trees

* Moved bay tree into a large pot near basement door stairs.

* Planted fig tree in front yard where bay had been. Fig should grow no more than 10 ft. tall and so will not conflict with newly strung electric wire.

* Thinned sugar snap peas and added more dirt to support their bases.

* Assessed herb bed. Removed plants that died in snowpocalypse (sad, some I've had for many years, from my small garden at the old apartment): silver thyme, geum, rosemary. Planted sweetpeas against fence.

* Turned cover crop into soil in old tomato raised bed. This is now the cut flower bed. Added a conical tomato cage, but will use for flowered vines. Planted sweetpeas on cage.

* Planted sweetpeas in blueberry bed so that bees will be attracted when pollination necessary.

* Planted sweetpeas on the dry compost bin and the large cold compost bin - an attempt to pretty things up.

* Planted sweetpeas by front porch stairs, one in a pot and one near the handrail.

* Moved stored items away from the back side of herb bed. Began building a bed there. Lacking a critical piece of hardware to lash boards together, just went ahead with the soil building and will finish the boards later. Planted Japanese kiwi in bed. It is a self-pollinating variety.

* Began cleaning overgrown area under bathroom window. Planning to use this as a "potting shed" area.

* Weeded pink jasmine semi-circle bed in front of the house. Discovered a wee black mondo that must have rooted somehow off the pot I stored there (the one I bought at the Chinese Garden Sale) for a few weeks.

* Began cleaning overgrown "green" bed -- this is a new bed began last year. Most of the flowers are green. Will get re-done in some way this year.

* Un-rolled new 100ft hoses in the sun to loosen up the rubber. With 80 degree predicted this week and so many new plants in the ground, I will probably have to water at least once this week!

* Shopped at Garden Fever, dodging the n00bs who want to grow their own food now, like Michelle Obama. "Uh, excuse me, where can I buy the 'organic garden'?"