How was your Sunday?

10 years ago

Anybody get any real work done in the garden today? I often do not on Sundays. My husband is away on the job so it was kinda nice because I did manage to accomplish at least a few things out there! Was out cleaning up my red/burgundy/white bed that we yanked all sorts
of trees and underplantings out of last week. Lost a LOT of roses in
that bed. Just discovered the sprinklers aren't working right, so added
another one. I'm surprised I didn't have more death in that part of the
bed. Wasn't just the overgrown "Hot-lips" salvias choking them out, was my lack of checking the watering system... Planted GRANDE AMORE, LASTING LOVE, LUCE DI TODI (I think) and
GYPSY LANTERN. Got about 6 more to plant in there I think. Makes me feel
good accomplishing that much tho.

But I got a big job going into the
middle of the bed... Last yr there was a meat-bee nest in there. (We call them that here.) They're the meat-eating yellow jackets that live in the ground. Those suckers not only sting, but they bite repeatedly. Luckily I'm not allergic. Been stung twice up in another area of the yard in the last two weeks. Exact same spot too... my inner thigh... thru thick jeans! Little B@$t@rd$ LOL I keep forgetting to go up there and dump a bunch of Sevin dust on the opening. Gotta wait til evening tho, when they're asleep. Anyway... my wonderful husband's remedy for that bed last yr was to go pour a bunch of gasoline in there. Thanks Honey! Killed one of my rare roses as well as the nest. Men!! But I'll be digging in there next. Gotta clean out the nest and what's left of the gasoline. Yuck! Can't wait.... Some of those nests can be 3ft in diameter. I don't think this one will be tho.

Also today potted up several of my smaller own-root roses so they can get bigger for a few yrs. Those will go in some of the permanent pot ghettos. So much more needing to get done tho.... Oh and I even did his Sunday chore... cleaning the poop boards in the chicken coop! Yuck! I'm glad he does that for me most of the time! I however am scooping up chicken poop numerous times a day, whenever I go in to visit the ladies. Gonna hafta get it all composted so I can use it as fertilizer next yr.

Well... now I'm off to visit my 98yr old mom while my niece is on her "date night" with the boyfriend. My younger son takes care of her when my niece is at the shop, or out somewhere. Gonna go pick up pizzas!! Yay! Hope you all had a nice Sunday.

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mariannese

10 years ago

In the morning I planted the rest of the planting queue, perennials from a well-known nursery 3 hours from here that I didn't visit until three weks ago. It's been too hot to plant the yellow perennial digitalis and the penstemon 'Husker Red' before. I spent most of the rest of the day cooking for my daughter and her children, one of whom has become a serious vegan lately. It became a kind of harvest feast with produce from the garden. I cooked Swiss chard like Greek horta with garlic, lemon and olive oil, small new potatoes, grilled white peppers and tomatoes, champignons a la greque, marinated red beetroots with lemon juice, lemon zests, and garlic. I added beef patties with fried onions for her brother and other non-vegans, stuffed eggs and corn on the cob with butter. A meringue pie with red currants for dessert. It became a long evening.

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Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
10 years ago
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Beth, I don't know how you do it. I woke up 5 am miserably itching my bee sting on my hand and started the day underwater. Then, after coffee I brought something downstairs to the wine cellar where I found my husband's home made creme soda had exploded and glass and creme soda were all over. Apparently he let it "brew" a little too long before refrigeration. Now I just went out to look at my "Anna Olivier" that has a new bloom opening and see a "Georgetown Tea" gorgeous new cane has a wilty look to the new leaves and I rushed 4 gal of water to it. It just irrigated today and the emitters are working. Everything else in the Tea Garden is fine and it is only 89 F. This seems to be possible to happen if a cane is growing really fast. If it is not one thing, it is another. We'll just have to look forward to enjoying the challenge. Hang in there, we're all with you.
towandaaz
10 years ago
I only did a bit of deadheading because I had to work today. Sounds like you got some good stuff done. Enjoy the evening with your mom! I can't imagine being 98 years old. Can you??
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jim1961 Central Pennsylvania Zone 6a
10 years ago
Having trouble with severe pain in my shoulder/neck so I did nothing today but rest...lol
bethnorcal9
Original Author
10 years ago
OMG Sheila! That exploded creme soda must've been a mess! Yikes! Bummer too. I bet it would've been good. I'd love to see a pic of your ANNA OLIVIER. Hope you tea cane recovers!

Towanda, I do not want to live that long! I feel so bad for my mom. She's been bedridden and receiving Hospice care for a yr now. She had breast cancer 2yrs ago, and we can't figure out what is keeping her going. She's like a baby now. It's really sad.

Oooh Jim... I feel for you! I have some occasional back pain, and a pinched nerve in my neck. Thankfully it hasn't bothered me for awhile. I hope you feel better! I don't know if it would help you any, but I have turmeric & honey tea every morning, and it seems to be helping with a lot of my aches and pains.
aprilscott12
10 years ago
Sounds like you had a busy and productive day!! That's amazing that your mom is 98!! I know it must be hard though seeing her so helpless :( I had an amazing Sunday in the house of the Lord! No working in the gardens for me on Sunday but I'm always happy to see what Monday mornings reveal.
SoFL Rose z10
10 years ago
I actually got a lot done in my garden yesterday too! I pulled weeds and weeds and weeds. I shovel pruned Fragrant Cloud (which was so pretty when I bought it, but just declined steadily ever since) in order to make room for Young Lucydas which I planted in its place. I also planted a Darcey Bussell in the side of the garden and put a top dressing of manure on it. I bought more bagged manure for the side yard garden but didnt get out there, it was too dang hot!

I planted my Old Town Novato gallon rose and my Paul Neyron which came in from Rose Petals nursery last week. Also Boul de Niege in the front. Hopefully they will be ok as they are pretty small, but they should be tough varieties and I'll keep an extra close eye on them.

I also gave the roses a dose of granular fertilizer and liquid to those in the raised beds that are already in good soil and those in pots.

Then Mother Nature came and rewarded me for my hard work with a torrential downpour of rain. :)
Ken (N.E.GA.mts) 7a/b
10 years ago
I got a lot done yesterday afternoon. My 2 mini's from Heirloom came in Saturday and I moved them into 1 gal pots. Got my chain saw and heavy loopers out and cut down a Cherry tree that has been slowly dying over the past 4/5 yrs. It was hollow in the center from ants. Cut it up into pieces and burned it in my burn pile. I was sore and tired by the time the sun went down but the tree is completely gone and nothing but a large pile of ash.
bethnorcal9
Original Author
10 years ago
Well... I was out watering this evening and got stung yet again!! Damn meat bees! I went out a bit ago in the near-dark to dump a big wad of Sevin dust all over the opening of the nest. They were still going in and out even tho it was getting pretty dark. Hopefully they'll get wiped out in a few days...
Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
10 years ago
My husband thinks ours are wasps, Beth, and he just used a wasp & hornet spray in a hole in the fence where he thinks their nest is. He probably felt he had to make up for the HUGE mess of the exploded cream soda. God help us all. Here are pictures of Anna Olivier, Beth. A 5 month old from Greenmantle. I'm thinking it is the "real" one that Jackie has. Also the nonblooming Georgetown Tea picture shows the one wilted new shoot. I can't find any damage to the cane, but the top half wilted. I bet it got drilled by the insect that does that, although I couldn't see any entry hole. The bottom half of the cane looks fine. Water wasn't the issue.
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mustbnuts zone 9 sunset 9
10 years ago
Had a busy day on Sunday. Was out in the front pulling up crabgrass, oxalis, other weeds, deadheading, etc. Did that for four hours. Then went in the kitchen and prepped my meals for the week. Then I did laundry, cleaned the house, had company for dinner, cleaned up and hobbled to bed. Did manage to get a bit of crochet done for an afghan I am working on. Watched a bit of the Olympics while I did that.

Beth, I hate meat bees. Don't see why they need to exist on the planet. They are nothing but mean. So sorry you have been stung. They are awful!