I have been flat out this week working in the gardens and ruminating about how all my new space is going to be filled. I have time still because the fine tuning needs to take place, but trying to wrap my head around the space and how to most efficiently fill it is challenging. When everything is raked out Steve will send up the drone so you can get a really good look at the space.
But how am I going to fill that space. High tunnel for season extension? Don’t think so much now, but I could change my mind yet again. I will need beds for spring bulbs that will need to be permanent, perennial and peony beds that will also need to be permanent, more annual beds and then the shrub borders. That new space is going to be filling up really fast that is for sure.
Meanwhile besides daydreaming of things to come, the immediate needs to be taken care of. The irrigation is finally hooked up and running. Haven’t needed it yet but if we don’t get some rain I will need to and we will be ready. Thank you to my darling Steve for helping me with that.
Then Friday arrives, and many of you made it to the farm gate open hours just after disaster struck.
I was going to be efficient and water the shrubs that had gotten transplanted into a new space between customers but as I was hauling my 65 gal water tank, the tongue of the trailer completely buckled, dropping the tank tap first into the driveway. All 600 some pounds of water had to be dumped out to get the tank out.
Anyway, by the time the first people came you could at least drive into the driveway. By later in the afternoon, I not only had a new trailer, but I was able to get the shrubs watered. Just in time for Saturday’s snow.
On the flower front the tulips are really starting to come in, the ranunculas are finally showing color, the amazing anemones are still going strong, and maybe the alliums? Time and the weather will determine.
Until next week, Allison