The FIRST rule of New Year gardening
Monday there was a brief afternoon respite from the rain and I found myself outside straightening out my 3 year old clematis that is going bonkos on the new trellis. Tons of buds and branches going every which-way, hanging down to almost the ground.
So I brought out the 3-step ladder from the house and climbed up there with a handful of handy-dandy plant velcro strips, and began sorting out all the pieces and getting them secured to the trellis top. The plan is to eventually have so much evergreen clematis there, we will actually establish some privacy from the deck of the house next door (if you've ever been to my house, you know what I mean).
After climbing down and admiring the progrees of the snowdrop and lily shoots, I noticed a few patches of what looked like clover along the fence line that I don't remember planting. I bent down and was plucking them out, bit by bit, trying to remove the root so I don't fight this battle all year long.
I had forgotten that in November I planted little clumps of a native plant, sweet woodruff, along the fence line to fight the battle with the grass expected to creep over from the neighbor's yard, under the fence.
The ground is so wet as soon as I realized what I was doing I began stuffing them all back into the mud. They probably won't ever realize what happened. But I felt pretty foolish for forgetting planting here since it was very intentional at the time.
Must be all the rain diluting the blood flow to my brain!
Anyway, if you did some serious gardening last fall, be sure to check your planting plan before "weeding"!
More information about Sweet Woodruff:
http://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/w/wooswe31.html
So I brought out the 3-step ladder from the house and climbed up there with a handful of handy-dandy plant velcro strips, and began sorting out all the pieces and getting them secured to the trellis top. The plan is to eventually have so much evergreen clematis there, we will actually establish some privacy from the deck of the house next door (if you've ever been to my house, you know what I mean).
After climbing down and admiring the progrees of the snowdrop and lily shoots, I noticed a few patches of what looked like clover along the fence line that I don't remember planting. I bent down and was plucking them out, bit by bit, trying to remove the root so I don't fight this battle all year long.
I had forgotten that in November I planted little clumps of a native plant, sweet woodruff, along the fence line to fight the battle with the grass expected to creep over from the neighbor's yard, under the fence.
The ground is so wet as soon as I realized what I was doing I began stuffing them all back into the mud. They probably won't ever realize what happened. But I felt pretty foolish for forgetting planting here since it was very intentional at the time.
Must be all the rain diluting the blood flow to my brain!
Anyway, if you did some serious gardening last fall, be sure to check your planting plan before "weeding"!
More information about Sweet Woodruff:
http://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/w/wooswe31.html
posted by Wendy Hughes-Jelen @ 9:21 AM
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