52°f/11°C, partly cloudy after an afternoon and night of storms and heavy rain.
I begin to wonder if our soil will ever dry up! From last year's drought to this monsoon Spring is just crazy. Look what we had yesterday:
Hopefully this is the end of the storms, although showers are in the forecast again this afternoon.
I was able to work outside earlier in the day, getting the herb garden fertilized with blood meal, bone meal, and lime. Then put down cardboard and covered that with mulch. I ran out of mulch before I got the bank covered, though. I have planted that bank with oregano, which I transplanted from another garden, hoping it will become a ground cover.
Looking downhill. This garden is about 15×20, with concrete blocks terracing it into 2 spaces. The blocks line each side of a walkway, and I have filled them with parsley, chives, thyme, and Marjorie. In the upper garden, covered in mulch, are 2 kinds of fennel, 2 kinds of sage, 2 kinds of basil, chamomile, tarragon, dill, pineapple sage, lavender, rosemary, calendula, and wild daisies and red clover that self- seeded. Probably a few other things I have forgotten.
There are asparagus and daylights on the bank too, as well as daffodils, Dame's Rocket and some invasive honeysuckle I have been trying to kill. Oh, and some raspberries we also transplanted there last year, which amazingly survived the drought.
Once I get finished with this bed, there is the problematic lower bed which is a tangle of random self-seeded asparagus, raspberries and bindweed. The bindweed is literally all over this garden. I think I am going to do the cardboard and mulch here too, then very carefully use a weedkiller on whatever bindweed comes up. I hate weedkiller but have tried every other solution under the sun and none have worked. Even this will be hard to do to avoid killing the asparagus or the raspberries.
Today we are off to buy replacement picket fence panels to replace the ones broken by the fallen tree, and then later I have a pedicure scheduled. Ah, to be coddled! I have gradually come to realizing that I deserve this treat, so it will become part of my life from now on. For years I have been a low-maintenance woman, rarely getting my haircut professionally, wearing little makeup, not into fashion, etc, so I think it's time to spend a little on myself! Manicures would be useless as my hands are always in dirt, water, or paint. But pretty toes? That I can do.
