While I wasn't looking, the weather turned not-horrible! Unfortunately my work is too busy right now for me to garden every day like I did last fall, but I've been trying for every other day. I think I mentioned planting dayliles on the bank by the road. On Wednesday I planted daffodils all around the daylilies. It wasn't too hard because we had tilled up there and added compost in the spring. But it took two and a half hours so the cumulative effect left me pretty tired. I'm so glad to have it all done though. Two hundred daffodils and fifty clumps of daylilies. I tried the method of making the daffodils look natural by tossing them on the ground and planting them where they fell. But they tended to roll into the furrows so I had to walk along the bank and place them to look more random.
Today I tried to get back to work on my hole in the ground. It's a huge project: removing solid clay 18" deep from the bed along the sunny side of the house, so we can fill it in with good soil and turn it into a flower bed. I worked on it bit by bit in early summer, but gave up when it got too hot for such strenuous work.
Well today was the day to get back to it, but I discovered to my dismay that drought makes clay impossible to dig. Not just difficult; impossible. It was like trying to dig up concrete with a shovel. I did manage to remove one wheelbarrow full, from a pile that I had dug up and left sitting there earlier this year. But the hole in the ground was immovable. Guess I'll have to wait until we get some decent rain for the rest.
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