Not as much as I would have liked! It was a wee bit cold (to put it nicely) this week-end so I didn't spend as much time gardening as I had hoped. I can barely believe myself but I didn't really feel like it! That's what this weather is doing to me. I usually go hard in May and here it is May 10 and I've barely done anything outside. Sad!
But I digress. I did start to get some of the planting done on my May to-do list. For the record, here's what I did:
- Put my seedlings outside for a few hours each day to start hardening them off,
- Planted a few new canes of a raspberry called "Sweet Treat", which is an "everbearing" variety. I already have some of the 'Boyne' variety which is super hardy and is highly recommended for Calgary. I top-dressed all the raspberries with compost.
- Direct-seeded outside spinach, bright lights swiss chard, snap peas and scarlet runner beans.
- Moved a couple of small shrubs that were planted last fall but not in quite the right place, and an ornamental grass to the strawberry patch to replace the annual millet I had last year. My four-year-old, Claire, was keen to help with this. Very fun!
- Had hubby put up a few trellises in 'England' - I am seriously going to try to make it look half decent in there this year!
Plans for this week:
- hook a soaker hose up to the already-full rain barrels and water the dry-side of the house,
- get the sweet pea and california poppy seeds in the ground,
- move some extra lamium from the potager into the back shade and front entry gardens. Lamium is one of my favourite spring plants! It starts growing and flowering early even in the deepest shade where everything else is slow to get started in spring,
- plant out my dianthus and rose campion plants that I started from seed in March.
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