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By 8:00 am, we hit the dirt, planting everything in sight! May did several small plantings, including the cantaloupe, while I dug ditches for the corn! We mulched, then picked everything up, as we expect to have some garden tours tomorrow (our annual St. Patrick’s Day corned beef extravaganza).
We added four more rows of corn to these and added two rows of cantaloupe adjacent to the corn! Then we mulch!
After three hours of working with our 12 mil latex gloves, we had to laugh. When we sat down to rest and pulled off the gloves, our hands were spotless, but perspiration poured out of the gloves!
We figured we’d beat the lunch rush, so we rolled into Del Taco to aggressively refuel our bellies. Then we took a casual two-hour round trip to H&H Nursery and somehow turned the back of the van into a mobile garden center—now the front yard is getting a glow-up, and the van definitely needs a nap.
The H&H Nursery is huge!
The trip is about 32 minutes on the 55/22 route and a little longer going home; the good old 91 is always slow!!
Since it was that time of year when you buy three bags of Bumper Crop and get one “free”, we came home with four bags. We got four bags two weeks ago and turned them into the backyard planters.
Master Nursery Bumper Crop Organic Soil Builder, which I have been using for almost twenty years, has always been known for its exceptional quality and rich biodiversity, and, as an OMRI-listed soil builder, it is trusted by gardeners across the United States. It is a balanced blend of sphagnum peat, aged wood fiber, cured compost, aged bark, lobster meal, worm castings, kelp meal, and dehydrated poultry manure that ensures your plants receive all the nutrients they need for healthy growth and development. Additionally, it is inoculated with endomycorrhizal fungi, which helps to improve root function and overall plant health.
We took the 55 to the 22 to the 405 to H&H, then the 9a home.
After we rolled home with our haul, Sleeping Beauty announced an emergency nap—strictly for “beauty maintenance”—before gracing the front yard with her presence.
While she was off in her royal coma, I went full yard goblin: pruning like I had beef with the shrubs, digging holes like I’d lost something expensive, and planting as the HOA had hired me.
Mary joined me after a while and did some serious gardening inside the fence, and she made the Plumeria look wonderful by adding color around the base! She also arranged the larger flower pots on the right side of the yard so that I can start early on Sunday!
Looking good!
Mary was a total MVP and helped me with the cleanup. We tossed all the tools and gardening goodies into the wheelbarrow and parked it by the side of the house—because apparently we’re starting a “Yard Work: The Series,” and the next episode drops on Sunday.
Around 6:00 pm, we declared victory and headed to the Swim Spa for a well-deserved soak! Guess what? The modern hot tub, popularized by the Jacuzzi brothers, was created to help a family member who has rheumatoid arthritis. We both have “gardenitis” after working all day in the garden.
We enjoyed watching the sunset and seeing the sky turn different colors as the Sun makes its journey around the Earth (yeah, I know, we go around the Sun)
Take the pain away, PLEASE! We again tried to watch “Suits” but gave up and tried a Bruise Willis movie called “Being Us”. It was “OK” but nothing I would want to see again!
By 10:00 pm we were crashed! Our eyelids felt like iron doors. Tomorrow is a big day!
