This past weekend felt like the first time in a month I had done any gardening. It probably wasn't that bad, but the art car trip did take up my time for the past several weeks. It felt so good to get back into the garden.
I didn't get as much done as Lisa but I did some good gardening. On Saturday I weeded along the driveway. Just in the nick of time, too: the weeds were still easy to scrape out with the hoe, but just about the reach the size where they wouldn't have been. So I'm really glad I got to it. Meanwhile Georg installed little edging things to help prevent the topsoil from spilling out onto the driveway. We were both surprised by how much erosion had already occurred: he scooped up 3 buckets of soil from the pavement. Also I dug out a small bed for the bay leaf I was planning to buy on Sunday.
Sunday morning we went to the farmer's market and bought lots of plants. Then we went home and I planted them all! It's so much easier to plant in nice prepared beds. Not like a year ago, when I had to hack planting holes out of solid clay. Let's see, what did we buy? A butterfly plant called hyssop something, which looks kind of like a salvia and grows 3 feet tall. A teeny tiny little bay leaf, which I planted near the water heater exhaust vent in hope that the warm exhaust will keep it alive through the winter. (It's also possible that the exhaust fumes will kill it, which is why we got a tiny one.) Also an unusual hot pink echinacea called Razzmatazz, and a little silvery plant that's supposed to have white flowers and spread readily. And a 4 foot tall purple mullein, and a pink and yellow lantana, and another purple flower called Kobold, and some dianthus, and something else. I forget. A pretty good haul! I could have bought tons more. I have a big wish list for next week.
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