Formerly ‘Big Rose’ flowering
On Tuesday I got up just before 5AM and got the laundry started and then got the kitchen cleaned up. My new helper called to say she’d be 15 minutes late, so I used that time to get these chores done.
We headed out to the Small garden and finished the raking. I got ¾ of the amendment spread and then we got the broccoli rows laid out.
I planned to mulch each area as it was planted as we are to have storms coming through. The mulch helps protect them. Once we had mulch around each plant we laid out the tomato and pepper area.
I could not plant them until my helper friend arrived to drive in the tomato stakes. So we went up to the barn and got another load of hay.
He arrived at 9:30 and got them pounded in. Then he set about planting them and I put mulch around them as he finished each one.
My new helper had to get out of the sun by 9:30 so she went and finished weeding the East Shed, under the magnolia, and I think she worked on the sweet peas.
A friend of my son’s was here this week and was fascinated with the gardens. He took this photo of the first sweet pea flowers and the one below.
West garden - perennial foxglove flowers
My helper friend and I finished around 11:30 and I was exhausted. I was supposed to go to a lecture at the Senior Center at 12:15. So I went in early and got cleaned up and grabbed lunch and went.
I have been to many talks and lectures over the last 20 years about the towns taken by eminent domain to supply Boston with water. But this author had a unique perspective, that of 3 people who lost their homes and how they dealt with that.
She actually now lives in the home of one of the people evicted from the Swift River valley. It was a very good talk and very interesting to hear the people’s point of view for a change.
This cold frame is getting pretty empty.
My neighbor was there and she brought me home. We sat in her car for quite a while getting caught up on life events. Then I came in and went to bed for a couple hours.
My brother went up after supper to try to get the weedwacker repaired. The parts had come in. If he succeeds, my son has a LOT of wacking to do on the fenceline of the back 40 in the next couple days.
This one, not so much
I haven’t decided what I’m going to do on Wednesday. I have no helper coming and really want to get something done in the Small garden. But I am very tired and could do something easy, like finish changing out the winter clothes. I’ll have to see how I am in the morning.