First weekend in June. May went by in a blur... it has been so busy that I haven't had time to post anything on my garden blog. But not for lack of doing anything in the garden. The garden center has been BUSY also. I am working five days at the center this summer... three are part time after work at the school. Sounds like I'll be able to increase my hours on those three days once school is out.. which will be just fine with me... extra hours will help a lot. The first full weekend in May was packed at the garden center as that was Mother's day, the next two weekends were quiet due to the weather turning cold and wet... nice to have the moisture tho. The last weekend in May was busy again. Memorial day was hopping also. Glad to see the customers come in.
I can't wait for school to finish for the year so that I can have some full days off to spend time in the garden right now I have been working a few hours here and a few hours there to get my work done in the yard.
I have put in about half of the perennials that I brought home. I have a whole lot more to put in. Hoping to plug away at it over the next week. I plan to work on the rock garden this summer as quite a few of the plants that I picked up are for the rock garden. I also put in two more raised beds in the veggie garden. I decided to use blocks that are laying around the yard instead of buying lumber. The money saved will go for picking up soil. Now I want to lay landscape fabric and stone in the walkways between the beds.
I did a walk through of my garden and there are so many plants from last year that have come back and are looking so good. I am fertilizing the plants this summer, something I haven't really paid attention to in the past. I am using Age Old Bloom; 5-10-5. and compost side dressings. As I am planting my new perennials I have been adding compost to the hole and then fertilizing foliage. I am curious to see how much better my plants grow and bloom with the added nurishments.
My Immortality Iris has bloomed. It looks gorgeous in the garden next to the kneeling fairy. I hope the other Iris that I put in last fall bloom this year, they are living and growing but no blooms yet.
Hoping for a great growing season this summer.
