So.. what's happened in the last 10 days...
We mulched the rest of the beds. Our usual mulch place was closed (unexpected) and so we had to go scurrying around to find another comparable one. We learned of one in Tynsboro and went there, but our experience with this vendor was absolutely horrendous. We feel they short changed us and when we politely called to ask about it, they called us back and screamed at us on the phone and were very disrespectful. In the end, their quality of mulch was very poor as well and I believe it is colored and not pure hemlock. I won't put their name on this web page, but will tell you if you ask.
So, after mulching, we admired that it looked SOOO much better without the weeds. :-)
We weren't able to redo the whole flower area's as much as we wanted to before the spring was up, so we have some Fall work to do or next Spring work to do.
Last weekend was a nice Sunday, it rained on Saturday a bit.
I planted Columbine babies (either white or yellow I'm told). Hopefully they will come back next year as I thought they were annuals that reseeded or biennials or something. I used to have really pretty Violet and blue ones and hope to find some like that in the future. I currently have yellow only.
I also planted a Hyperion Day Lily that was given to me by Christine. I put it near a few Orange daylilies so that next year there will be a mix of colors in that one spot.
I also dug up around my tomatoes (all of them) and put down peat and fertilizers because they are not doing as well as I had hoped. I'm kind disappointed at their progress right now. The plants have very little foliage and are starting to flower, so I'm worried. One of the plants has tomatoes starting already. I was hoping this year that the tomatoe plants would be much bigger since we put a lot of composted manure and ammended the bed. I might need to put down more manure or somethng else. If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate it.
The Evening primrose seems to be blooming continuously for the last 2 weeks or so and what used to be a tiny plant is taken over a 4 square foot area in my front bed. That was a surprise to me ;-) I will try and take pictures.
Also staked one of my plants that Christine gave me (don't know name) and it is surviving but barely. Another one she gave me (again, don't know name) is doing pretty well, she told me to cut it down (I was worried) but new leaves have come up. I'm wondering if I should do the same with the first one.
The Artichoke annual she gave me is starting to stand up - so that's good news.
One of the iris bunches she gave ms is starting to die out - hopefully normal growth.
Lastly, our miniature peach we got 3 years ago - though it isn't very bushy (we need advice on dissease and pruning) has 3 growing peaches on it. Its not a very pretty tree yet but it has potential. Its a miniature Peach tree we got at Home Depot a few years back. This year some of the leaves looked like they were sick, but about 90 % are good looking. We saw 6 baby peaches at one time but we think the wind blew off the rest.
That's it for now.
