Whatever Happened to May Two-Four???

May long week-end used to be a time for beers and bratwurst cooking over the campfire. Unfortunately, it now seems like the Victoria day week-end, is not a holiday, but an extra day of house and yard work. It's 7:00 pm and I feel like I've run a marathon. In reality, I've been hauling wood, soil, peat moss, compost, and garbage. I'm still two weeks away from being able to plant my annuals and I probably won't put any seeds in the vegetable beds until next week, but there is still lots to do.

Preparing the garden for a busy summer is a lot of work. To get started, I worked on the vegetable and greenhouse beds. I added peat moss, manure, compost, blood meal, bone meal and some wood ashes to make the soil nice and nutritious for all my plants. I turned the beds over and covered them with a light woven cloth that will help warm the soil until I'm ready to plant. For the perennial beds, I added peat moss and compost and dug it in between the plants. There is not much up, but I'm hopeful that in the next few days the perennials will pop up.

After the soil was taken care of, it was time to work on the trees and bushes. Most of the stuff needed a good pruning, especially my crazy currants that like to grow in odd directions and have yet to produce any berries. Despite this, I bought another black currant bush, because I'm confident that if I just keep adding bushes eventually they will have to produce some kind of berry (right???).

Tony and I also joined the majority of Whitehorse at free dump day. A fabulous opportunity to get rid of all the crap that has accumulated in the back yard over the course of an entire winter. Then continued on the Victoria Day tour to Home Hardware, where we picked up a small forest worth of trees.

As I finish typing this entry I realize how pathetic my life has come. Where are the stories about someone shoving a dozen marshmallows into their mouths and screaming "chubby bunny"? Where are the injuries incurred from keg athletics? How did I transform into a garden obsessed yuppie??? So many questions, but no time to ponder them because there are plants to water, greenhouses to seal and lawns to seed...

Sierra posted this on May 20, 2007 from the garden | | permanent link