Today I didn't do much. It was raining and I'm feeling the full effects of a COVID vaccine booster. However, I did do the following:
(1) Re-cover the sides of the recovered cedar planter box, with clear plastic. I want them to not-be rained on for few weeks so they will be dry, when I stain and water proof the wood. Especially the inside - that way I can start setting up the filling for plants. I can stain the outside later if needed.
(2) Planted some Crocosmia "Lucifer" corms in the deer park / hell strip border. I bought five via mail order. This fall I should dig up some of the big clumps growing elsewhere, and divide them. It would mean a lot more plants, for free, and it would be way too expensive otherwise to buy that many new ones.
(3) Moved a Sisyrichium striatum clump from the edge of the fenced garden, to the deer park border. I like them but they are messy looking. Better to grow out of the main view. I prepped the old location for planting some colorful, modern bare root Echinacea plants that came yesterday.
(4) Planted a short row of carrots and another of radishes.
(5) Scattered slug bait around the emerging sweetpea seedlings, and also around most of the snowpea and snappea plants. Slugs like those. Also around the Rudbeckia, Echinacea, and Coreopsis seedlings and rhubarb divisions.
(6) Mostly I walked around, looking at swelling tree buds, plants emerging from the ground, and taking in fragrance from hyacinths.
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