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May 5 -Mon
Planted California poppy, lupine, cosmos seeds in a patch in front left bed and garage side bed
Need to hire professional to trim dead wood off the Crab apple and oak
May 6 - Tue
Edged the circular bed in front to carve out for Zinnias
Drizzling for over 4 days
Everything wet and slippery
May 10 - 17
Worked when no rain and not so hot. The temperatures almost hit 80 for a couple of days
Finished preparing holes for planting
Will plant late this year as we will be in Boston for a week around Memorial Day
The crab apple faded very soon due to the high temperatures
May 21 - 28
In Boston
Lots of rain here during that time
Came back to lots of rain and everything wet.
Perennials are growing great
All the holes dug, on the raised bed were full of water. Did not drain. Never happened before
I had raised beds because the ground underneath is clay. There has been so much rain that it is not draining from the holes for planting
May 29 -Thu
Planted peas and beans
Sow seeds for the planters on the deck.
Prepared pots for the Zinnias
It looks like planting will be later next week
May 30 - Fri
Sowed the remaining flower seeds
May 31 - Sat
Cold. High 50 with breeze. same tomorrow. Thank god it is not snowing
Went to Garden Factory for veggie plants
Only managed to find tomatoes
No bell peppers, no eggplants - sold out
Picked up large purple eggplants and peppers at Home depot
Japanese Kerria (front) (5/6)
Japanese Kerria back (5/5)
Forget me not (5/6)
Pearl Tree (5/6)
Lilac (5/6)
Lilac (5/6)
4 garden terrorists (5/3)
Pearl Tree in Bloom (5/11)
May 17, Tree Peony # 1
May 16, Bunny proofing - continuing my Elmer Fudian ways with Garden Terrorists
May, 15, Prepared holes fo Zinnia
May 13, Prepared hole for Deck side
May 10, Prepared containers for way back
May 17, Prepared planting holes for front
May 17, Prepared planting holes in the back
May 16, Prepared deck for planting
May 31, Plants from Garden factory
May 31, Flower seeds
May 31, Water in the holes
May 31, Iris, front
Only one stalk from 7 plants. At least it is naturalizing after years
Leading dates on pictures is when it was taken.
May 29 -Both Tree peonies
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