Garden stuff
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helwenLast weekend we moved 45+ potted plants over. I still have stuff from the previous move of plants to put in the ground -- a few daffodils, a bunch of iris, Jerusalem artichokes, and the hops. Hm, and maybe a little more Lady's Mantle. The black currant is doing well, where L put it. Of the potted plants I put in one of the gooseberry bushes and L hacked out a hole so we could get one of the elderberry bushes in. It's getting late in the season for planting elderberry, so hopefully the other one can go in today or tomorrow. L's been hacking out a clump of baby trees/bushes that have been doing battle with each other, where we'll put just the one bush, thanks.
Quite a bit of rain over the past couple of days, so the only gardening I've done is identify one of the garden weeds. It's garlic mustard, which is an invasive. It's also edible, so I'll try to harvest a little for eating, but mostly I plan on eradicating as much of it as possible before they all go to seed. Native butterflies are affected, both by the fact that the eggs they lay on these plants don't thrive and because the garlic mustard is crowding out the native plant species the butterflies depend on. Trying to restore a little balance to our tiny corner of the world...
Looking at some plants to place near the river, to help stabilize the banks and maybe give us some side benefits as well. Looking at diamond willow, osier/basket willow, and bog myrtle/sweet gale (myrica gale). Also looking for fiddlehead ferns and maybe some American sweet flag. Nasami farm in Whately has loads of native plants, so hoping to make it there this year -- and sooner rather than later, but we'll see. May is a busy month.
Quite a bit of rain over the past couple of days, so the only gardening I've done is identify one of the garden weeds. It's garlic mustard, which is an invasive. It's also edible, so I'll try to harvest a little for eating, but mostly I plan on eradicating as much of it as possible before they all go to seed. Native butterflies are affected, both by the fact that the eggs they lay on these plants don't thrive and because the garlic mustard is crowding out the native plant species the butterflies depend on. Trying to restore a little balance to our tiny corner of the world...
Looking at some plants to place near the river, to help stabilize the banks and maybe give us some side benefits as well. Looking at diamond willow, osier/basket willow, and bog myrtle/sweet gale (myrica gale). Also looking for fiddlehead ferns and maybe some American sweet flag. Nasami farm in Whately has loads of native plants, so hoping to make it there this year -- and sooner rather than later, but we'll see. May is a busy month.
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Date: 2013-05-13 04:29 am (UTC)I plan to try to remember to email you tomorrow, just a heads-up.