It has finally happened. We have had our killing frost. Bam. The end of the season. Clean up is now beginning.
But in the meantime, I have been very busy. The perennial and biannual beds have been roto-tilled, thank you to the tiller and Steve. Otherwise I would still be out there trying to dig one hole for something. Oh, we still had plenty of rocks to dig out believe you me, but the beds have gone from this
To this.
Looking good I think. The two unplanted beds are for the peonies that we are still waiting but ready for. The very back rows have been tilled a number of times, each pass excavating more rocks. Some needed the spud bar and the tractor to get them out and rolled down the hill. I certainly hope I don’t need to expand, which I won’t. I promise Courtney, because I have been dumping ALL the rocks beyond the big rock you see and that would just be an outrageous nightmare.
So this past week, besides digging up more rocks and oh, breaking the tiller tines because of rocks, then flooding the engine block with oil because silly us, we turned the tiller on it’s side to access the tines and filled the block with oil, soooo to make a long story short, we pulled the spark plug, shot oil all over the place and now we are running. So we can dig out more rocks. There is a reason why we are called Lottarock farm.
So what have I done this week you might ask. I have moved rocks, planted 25 allium, 150 fritillaria, 50 Ornithogalm, 100 Leucojum and 300 assorted narcissus. I still have to get 1000, choke, 1000 tulips planted but they are going into the vegetable garden in trenches so that should only take a day?
But wait! I have two rows of extra space! How did that happen? And nothing to put in them. Ohhh, what am I going to do? Wisely cover them with cardboard and wood chips and wait till next year? See what is on sale and fill the space? OHHHH this is not good. Allie with open garden space. Not good at all. I had wanted to get some Iris reticulata for spring….
Soon I will be perusing the seed catalogs. Oh dear.
Until next time. Allie