Done, and to-do!

Friday, May 16th 2008, 9:51pm by Claire

Bedtime took forever tonight, so it was well after dark before I made it outside to water.  I went ahead and fertilized as well, mixing up 15 gallons of John's Recipe, and giving everything a good dousing.  I tried to give extra TLC to the pumpkins since I stabbed them with a medicine dropper this afternoon, injecting bT into most of them.  (Found quite a few squash borer holes once I knew what I was looking for.  At least I found them before real damage was done!)

This weekend is crazy busy, so I don't think I'll manage to get much done in the garden.  I've got a triathlon Sunday, and while I'll be home by noon, I'm not going to want to play in the garden after.   Saturday is pretty much booked too. 

I need to design a butterfly garden for my son's school (It's called Mariposa.)

I need to give the plants a more thorough drink. 

I need to weed in the back yard along the retaining wall. 

We need to figure out a bird&critter net for David's corn.

I need to dig out the last of the bleeding heart in my herb garden and try to win that war. 

I need to stake my fruit trees!

 

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Things wives hate
What's John's Recipe?
Nasturtium
Funny that Bleeding Heart is a weed to you. I guess it's all relative. Vanillalotus has pictures of some beautiful Morning Glory on her blogspot blog. What's crazy is that if it were growing in my yard, I'd rip it up. To me Morning Glory is a weed! :)
Me.
It's more its location than its species. I've planted it on purpose before, but I need it out of my herb garden! Nothing else has a chance if I let it keep going.

Bob, John's Recipe is my current favorite liquid fertilizer:
http://www.ladybugbrand.com/fertilizer.htm#fertilizer-1

Me
I believe Aaron uses a fish emulsion insecticide and it works great!

I wish I could magically transfer your unwanted bleeding hearts to my yard. :) I dunno why but its been one of my favorite plants to observe this spring:
http://greenthumbr.com/plants/dicentra/images

Aaron says its because it got destroyed by the frost last spring and that I'm making up for not seeing it last year. My bleeding heart also has a little bit of sentimental value to me...being that I bought it for cheap from a place that had it on the sidewalk with a sign in it that said "rescue me." I was pretty excited that I brought it back to life.
Me.
ah hah! I figured out that what I have is actually called PURPLE Heart (aka Wandering Jew). It was mislabeled at the nursery.

Sorry for the confusion :)
Things wives hate
Rebecca just picked one of those up at the Wytheville Garden Festival.

Being children of the Politically Correct movement, we figured "Wandering Jew" simply could not be acceptable. Sure enough, it appears to be a less-than-pleasing moniker.

There's the "Wandering Jew" folklore:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_Jew

Our own database claims ours to be more acceptably called a "Purple Queen".

http://greenthumbr.com/plants/tradescantia_pallida

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