Accomplished today:

[conuly]

Transplanted brassicas, sown companion crop of radishes. Which are also brassicas.

Planted peas, will sow companion crop of mesclun.

Removed six square feet of solid weed and roots along fence, also several rocks, bricks, and so on. Awful thing spreads through runners, and my goal this month is to get rid of all of it on both sides of the fence. Next month I'm doing the patch next to the garage. It is very disheartening a task - you work for a half an hour, look around, and find you've only cleared about one foot of space. Barely.

Lugged fifty pounds of rice hulls from front porch to backyard.

Transplanted some glads.

Still to do today: eat something, set border along brassicas and peas, mix compost for corn and also tomatoes, feed cats, dig up space for salad garden, decide what herbs to buy, start rosemary cutting to transplant, keep moving rocks and digging up the weed from hell, transplant still more of the bulbs, bring the tomatoes and peppers in for the night, panic.

Remind me why I thought this was a good idea, what possessed me to actually put some effort in this year?

Comments

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Because long, cold winters tend to be motivation boosters. It just doesn't last long. ;)
(I struggled with brambles today. Still dealing with some of the thorns. Why did I think that was a good idea? Oh right. It's spring! :P)

Other than that, I'm just amused that it's actually called "transplanting". It makes perfect sense, I know! It's just that in my native language, the Latinate transplantieren is used exclusively for organ transplants, while for plants you'd use umpflanzen. Which literally means the same, but establishes a kind of difference between... scientific-type transplanting and gardening-type transplanting? So my first mental image was one of you putting brassicas into someone's chest or something. Don't mind me. Sometimes I'm just silly.

[conuly]

No, that's a hilarious image! LOL!

[ncp.livejournal.com]

Remind me why I thought this was a good idea, to actually put some effort in this year?

So I could learn from your example and not grow a vegetable garden. Flowers are enough to start with. (And hey, turns out that deer don't like Astilbe or Bleeding Heart either. Score!)

[liannas-mom.livejournal.com]

In September you won't question what possessed you to put in the effort, it will pay off ;) I turn my gardening into my meditation

[conuly]

Well, I'm hoping that the effort with the weeds will mean I never have to do this again.

[liannas-mom.livejournal.com]

lol...if that works tell me your secret!! I started weeding around January and end around December, every.single.year. Mulch helps.

[conuly]

I expect other weeds, but not the demon weed of hell. I plan to eliminate that.