Use a garden fork to loosen the sides of the planting hole as well. To prepare the planting hole for a bareroot peony, dig the soil to a depth of 12-18". Our peonies look like they're about to burst!! Although I have a sneaky suspicion that the Coriopsus that is ginormous is actually cutting out sunlight from the middle peony plant and that's why it is smaller this year.Abalone Pearl peony is a stunning semi-double variety with soft pink-peach petals contrasting with vibrant orange anthers. Next to them are the peas I sowed directly in the ground and they are doing great!! Who knew? In the foreground on the right you can see the peas I started.they didn't survive once transplanted. Here's where we planted the new hydrangea.you can barely see it behind the OUTRAGEOUSLY HUGE lily!! I seriously need to divide that lily before it gets too big for its own good:Īnd our arugula and peas are coming up in the raised bed: We moved the original one near the house in one last attempt to get it to grow, but we're not holding our breath. Sadly though, the original hydrangea we purchased didn't do so well, re: it didn't even get a single leaf, (I'm pretty sure we were slackers at watering it) so we went back to the nursery the other day and they were kind enough to give us a new one. So.here we are almost a month after all the planting featured above and as you will see our garden is doing pretty well. The cherry tree is always so pretty in full bloom: I was a doubter, but they are so beautiful and healthy this year all because we didn't cut them all the way back in the Fall! Yay!! Pruning tip: don't prune this plant all the way back in the fall.instead, prune the dead areas and let it go through the winter. It is nice to see that we didn't kill off these plants like we did last year. I am hoping that this Phlox will eventually grow over the rocks of the raised bed and be a good ground cover: Our other goal was to have something in bloom through the whole summer, so we found a variety of plants in a variety of heights that will hopefully give us a variety of bloom time. Half of it gets full sun and half of it is shaded by the cherry tree, so we looked to find some shade-loving plants for the one side, and transplanted the sun-loving plants to where the sun actually shines. The goal was to round out the garden a bit. We also took some time to plant our new items in the garden. The compost wasn't fully turned into 'gold' but it was pretty close and according to This Old House magazine it is perfectly acceptable to use it as a base for a raised bed.Ĭan you believe that in just a few short, not to mention COLD, months all of our leaves and grass clippings and food waste and diapers* turned into compost? So crazy!! In the meantime, we headed home and put down sheets of newspaper in the bottom of the raised bed and covered it with our own compost pile. Turns out, you can buy compost in bulk from the nursery, so we ordered some up and waited for it to be delivered. It really took no time at all, so in the end I am glad I did it.Ī few weeks later we headed back out to the nursery to pick out some new plants for our flower garden, to ask them about the hydrangea which wasn't doing much of anything, and to get some more soil to fill our garden bed. I had been thinking I would just get plants that had already been started from our nursery, but since I had some seeds left over from last time, I threw all we-have-a-baby-and-therefore-we-have-no-time caution to the wind and started some seeds. I also started some arugula, peas, basil and tomatoes in our basement around that time. In early April, we finally built the raised bed.and by 'we' I mean: my husband and by 'built' I mean: we had Home Depot cut the wood for us and we ordered a kit to assemble them into a raised bed. Ahhh.so when we last left off with our gardening adventures, we had just purchased a new hydrangea for our flower garden and moved some peonies and scoped out where we were going to put our raised beds.
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