TUESDAY JUNE 10, 2008
A rainy start to the season!
Well, in the upper Midwest this year, we have been inundated with rain! So much so that brief interludes in the garden have been outnumbered by long gazes out the window wishing for it to stop. Yesterday, however, the rain stopped long enough for me to work out in the garden, weeding around the Hosta by the Big Bertha Garden. Big Bertha is a Willow tree that must be 3 feet or 4 feet wide. It stayed when we cleared out our land. I will take an upload a picture of Bertha and her border of hosta this evening for you to see.
Suffice it to say, it is looking better, but Oh! the mosquitos! My yard is a lovely wooded lot with what amounts to a small creek each spring and every time we get a large volume of rain. Sitting out there by the hosta, I could hear the water continuously washing into the drains installed by the city.
One byproduct of the hot rainy days however is growth. Oh, how my garden is growing. How pleasant that my annuals are growing like weeds. The snapdragons which I pinched back what only seems like days ago have since sprouted three and sometimes even four new growth stalks with buds forming at the top. How lovely! Not to be greedy, but I must confess, I pinched one of the new ones on each plant back again to see if I'll multiply my flowers again! :) Look for a later update on this experiment.