Dug up an entire huge clump of daffodils
Apr. 14th, 2024 05:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyIt needed the actual big shovel to dislodge, and there were over 40 daffodils inside it. I know there were only two or three, well-spaced, when planted. I put one back in the dirt and put the rest along the left-side fence. Tomorrow I'll just do our back fenceline, get all the ragweed up up up - carefully, because of the bushes - and then the day after that I'll get the other side of the fence, bag up everything for garbage night.
The daffodils I replanted look sad and sorry about it. They're clearly dubious about their prospects now that they've been ripped from their large and loving family to live semi-independently, and all their leaves are flopping on the ground, and flowers too for those lucky few on the outside of the clump who'd been able to grow flowers. But they'll adapt soon enough!
That's almost all the yellow-on-yellow daffodils. Now I have the white ones (meh), the white and salmon ones (my fave, but we have hardly any) and the itty-bitty yellow ones in the front to deal with. Oh, and those bushes I mentioned? Now that they're not quite as choked out with ragweed some of them have started branching out in earnest!
Still haven't put the wildflower seeds down. I have to at least get a start on that this weekend. I should maybe mulch them, I think? The birdseed should be more attractive to the birds, I should think... but then again, we do have those house sparrows and starlings, and everybody knows those will eat just about anything. And robins! We've become very popular with robins on the ground! Probably all my digging has exposed some bugs and worms for them.
The daffodils I replanted look sad and sorry about it. They're clearly dubious about their prospects now that they've been ripped from their large and loving family to live semi-independently, and all their leaves are flopping on the ground, and flowers too for those lucky few on the outside of the clump who'd been able to grow flowers. But they'll adapt soon enough!
That's almost all the yellow-on-yellow daffodils. Now I have the white ones (meh), the white and salmon ones (my fave, but we have hardly any) and the itty-bitty yellow ones in the front to deal with. Oh, and those bushes I mentioned? Now that they're not quite as choked out with ragweed some of them have started branching out in earnest!
Still haven't put the wildflower seeds down. I have to at least get a start on that this weekend. I should maybe mulch them, I think? The birdseed should be more attractive to the birds, I should think... but then again, we do have those house sparrows and starlings, and everybody knows those will eat just about anything. And robins! We've become very popular with robins on the ground! Probably all my digging has exposed some bugs and worms for them.
