It's been a testy Spring.Rain, rain....too wet to till or plow...or anything else
and the plants in the flats by the greenhouse multiply.
Ive been nursing so many things that are TRYING to hold on until they can be set in the ground...very frustrating.
But life goes on. We'll see what we can do this weekend. In the meantime, here is a picture or two; no, you can't have the new bees story or the clover pics - because Will has promised to tell you all about that.
ok. that. Now for the 'you just can't keep a good plant down' department...so MANY things will be with us till the end of time. It matters not whether we want these things....we planted them and they'll be here and too bad. We even try to discourage some things but forget it. Last year it was the zillions of evening primrose plants everywhere. I mean Everywhere.
This year it's the stupid loofas (sorry loofas, but I mean REALLY). Do i dig up hunks of them and try to move them? what? I mean, they'll be plowed under in any case. But it is admirable, you have to admit. The fence is gone and the ground has been tilled at least once, but here they are.
And then there is the Lemon Grass. Seemed like an exotic idea at the time...It's on the fence-line, and it grows really tall in a big clump. Then it dies and makes a huge bush of dead stalks. Then Will tries to get rid of it. Burning only burns the fence - we've figured that one out.
what now? who knows..I'd like to keep it but it's all gnarly; dead stalks, new growth and I must admit to you, there's a big poison ivy problem in there...
Then we have accidental happiness in the form of things that just spring up and it makes you smile ; and we try to let them do their thing and go to seed so it will happen again next year.
Several years ago we planted a row of coreopsis. This is a wildflower...I first saw them in Hattiesburg Mississippi and they would grow in all the ditches. Just beautiful. Then we saw some seed at the Texas Wildflower Farm and we bought that...of course, what with the good soil etc., we wound p with this crazy hedge of giant coreopsis and it would try to fall over so like a couple of idiots we got out there and tied them up...tied the whole row up! It was silly, looking back. But it sure was beautiful. And so now, every year, they spring up on the outskirts of the garden and we let them be.
And, in the herb beds (which we are in the process of tearing up and re-planting but for a couple of things), the ox-eyed daisies which were NEVER supposed to grow down here but they do.
And..lest we forget...the sunflowers. We grow rows of then in the field every year. So of course in the spring they just jump up all over the place. I think it's nice that (apparently) Will has gone around these few volunteers.
Oh, wait - one more thing: we'll be setting out cucumbers in this row tomorrow, but I just might leave this guy alone: ha. a potato plant. why not?
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