Well I had to work yesterday, but I still managed to get in a couple of hours of yardwork in the afternoon before it got dark. I planted 20 asparagus crowns which I had ordered from Stark Brothers: 10 Jersey Knight and 10 Purple Passion. The purple ones allegedly turn green when cooked, but are sweet enough to eat almost raw so they still have their color. It will be three years before we can harvest any, and we'll see how it turns out!
I planted them in the cutting garden, where they took up about half the bed. I'm kind of disappointed to lose all that space for flowers, but it's the ideal place for the asparagus, nice and deep with good soil.
Today I seem to have a cold. Sniffly and sneezy and bleh. Such a beautiful day too. I worked for a few hours but that was all I could manage. First planted a flat of pansies in front of the asparagus. Then back to work on the new bed. I had planned to go after the stump of doom again, but with the dirt cleared away from it, it was so daunting I just couldn't face it. So Georg worked on the stump of doom, and I pulled up vines. After all that rain, the ground is so saturated that the roots almost seemed to lift right out. I got so much done. The whole project is starting to look less daunting. Of course I probably just feel that way because I wasn't dealing with the stump of doom.
In the afternoon I drove to Big Blue and Big Orange to price chipper-shredders. Big Orange didn't have any, and Big Blue only had one, which was way out of my price range. This evening I found a smaller electric chipper online and ordered it from Amazon. I can't wait to get rid of the piles of brush in the yard. Best of all, Amazon had a coupon in their tools & hardware department which almost paid for the shipping. So I splurged, while I was at it, and ordered a good forged shovel, the kind with a slightly pointed shape. The chipper and the shovel will be my Christmas present to myself.
Now we're watching Top Hat and I'm resting. I might get up and make tea in a little while.
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