Much cooler today, much drier also. It was a nice day to be out and a great day to finish up the mowing, yesterday was very warm.
The weeds are in full force, I have tried spraying them during the early part of the year to keep them down, that turned out to be a total bust, after three or four sprayings I can't tell it did one bit of good. So with all the weeds and the seeds they were showing I hooked up the bag to the lawn mower. I used all the grass and leaves collected from the front yard to help stop a wash problem, with that five inches of rain I was glad I did.
However, all the grass and leaves collected from the back yard I used to start up a new compost pile. I will keep track of it here and see just how long it takes to become really finished compost. I will need for the pile to really heat up in order to kill all the weed seeds. The plan is to keep this compost for use next year, that should give me plenty of time to eliminate the weeds.
Today I had a little bloom on what I can the 'Street Find' rose, that is because I picked it up beside the road, it had been thrown out for dead and I picked it up and rescued it. Right now the blooms are pretty tiny, but I have noticed that this year the buds on all my roses really look small compared to what they normally look like. I am hoping as the weather warms up the buds will fatten up. The black spot is already taking a toll on the foliage, I have sprayed twice this year already and I keep pulling the yellow infected leaves off, but each time I go back to the plant there are more leaves to pull. Maybe after the rain predicted for tonight the weather will dry out for a while and the black spot will not be as bad, I need to spray by Thursday, so hope the weather cooperates.
The good news is that more of the Iris bloomed and they were the same as the earlier ones, they were confirmed in the Iris forum as being Indian Chief.
The really good news is that four more of my Hostas sent up new pips today:
1. Bressingham Blue
2. American Halo
3. Northern Exposure
4. Elegans
The Bressingham Blue was so covered over with muck and mud I don't know how it mangaged to get up. I have noticed that after a hard rain or several days of rain it really seems to help the Hostas break through. I am assuming that it makes the soil softer, but it could also give them enough strength to pushthough the soil.
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