Tuesday
A few days ago during some of the rainy weather I sat down and made a gardening task to do list. Before I knew it, the list was 5 pages long. I like having lists. It helps keep me focused. This most recent list has tasks that will take as little as 5 or 10 minutes and also tasks that are much larger in scope. Being very specific vs general makes the list a lot longer, but it is easier to see progress being made.
For example, one of the general tasks is to plant up my containers with annuals. Instead of listing just this general task, I made 15 specific tasks - one for each of the container groupings. A single general task for planting up my containers would remain open for quite a while, whereas I can cross off each individual container group as I go along. Nice seeing that green hilite indicating that something has been finished.
I grouped all the tasks by garden area. I'll probably jump around vs sticking with one garden until all the tasks in that area are finished. Most of the tasks are about planting, relocating, weeding, pruning, fertilizing - garden editing and maintenance. Nothing is overly hard, just time consuming with the volume. This particular list of about 150 items won't be accomplished in a day or two that is for sure.
I was able to spend a few hours working in the garden yesterday. We had a day of non rain between the rains of the weekend and the rains again today. An easy task was to dead head all the lambs ears that line the side walkway into the house. At this time of year they grow tall flower stalks that I've never liked and I've always cut them off. I love the silvery soft mounded base foliage for a ground cover, but those flower stalks are gangly and give the illusion of making that walkway seem really narrow. Even though an easy task, it took about 2 hours. My poor leg muscles, already tired from the pool in the morning, were screaming with that particular bending over posture. There is something very satisfying about dead heading though. While I was at it, I also dead headed spent hyacinth blooms and a few spent iris stalks.
Today I will likely pot up some of those containers. I can do that with the light rain, whereas planting or relocating would be a muddy mess.
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