Three Days Away
After a horribly hot and humid week we decamped to the lake for the long weekend and boy was it needed. As I said to one of my flower people, I will be out of the office until Sunday night and will not be looking at my emails. It worked. I had three beautiful days away, kayaking, swimming, reading…Now I am back full of something or other.
I haven’t walked the gardens yet, that will happen when we go out to the barn, but I am sure they will be fine. The watering system should have done the job, and I am sure the voles have been busy dining, the weeds growing and everything else, but that is for later, if not tomorrow.
You all will be proud of me. At least Steve is proud of me. I was tempted to order 6 trays of 32 perennial plugs for the garden. After stewing about it for a day, I decided that even though I am leaning towards more perennials and woodies I really don’t want to make a huge investment on 216 perennial plugs. If I did that then a row at least would have to go from the annuals, and really, am I ready for that? I am still reducing the farming when I am 70, that is what I have promised Steve. I still have some time to change my mind…but if I add them, I will have to find some more wholesale accounts.
The flower shed schedule is back to normal now until August. Tuesdays from 2-5 and Fridays from 9-2:00 unless you have a special order.
The dahlias have been fed and have had their pinch. This week the plan is to get the stakes in so they will be able strung up when they are ready, i.e. tall enough. The cosmos are starting to bloom as is the celosia, marigolds and hopefully the zinnias, so the summer flower bunches aren’t far behind. Remember to ask for the flower food with the summer flowers. It keeps the water cleaner, or add a couple drops of bleach to the water to kill the bacteria. Believe me, it does make a difference.
I have no photos this week. It was too hot to do anything but get the essential flower stuff done. I will be much better about it this week and hopefully the following weeks. I haven’t even done any flowers for me this week!
I will pass this off to Steve. Thank you for reading this weekly missive. I do enjoy writing it and sharing my trials and tribulations as a aging flower farmer.
Until next week, Allie. I dream of flowers, do you?