Tuesday, July 13, 2010

How to plant pachysandra

We know that pachysandra is the perfect shade plant. I absolutely love it. We planted it a few years back under our huge backyard trees.

 A few weeks ago, my friend Franz wanted to plant some pachysandra under his shady trees. He had this big idea for planting... drilling holes into the earth and putting one plant in each hole.

It worked like a charm. And it went so fast, so so fast!

Here's what he did.

1. He bought his pachysandra over the internet. It was delivered. He went to the county dump and got a bunch of nice soil.

2. We began to drill holes into the soil a few inches apart. We used a regular drill with a widish bit.




3. We began to feed individual plants into each hole.




4. We filled the holes and coverd the surrounding area with soil.





Franz and his son Tristan working.


After planting



5. Water vigorously and repeatedly.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

This is my garden this year


These are my first pictures of the garden this year, taken a few weeks back. Things have already changed since then! But I need to show the first pictures. I'm excited!


Swiss chard


Another view

Saturday, June 5, 2010

I'm at it again

I left gardening last summer after a nasty case of blight ravaged my tomatos. We had a light harvest of potatoes, which were very good.

I just planted a new garden today... I realize that it's late to get started on June 5. But still.

I have planted mostly tomatoes and peppers. It's a small plot in my own yard. I'll take a photo tomorrow.

I'm tired after a long day's work.

Hoping for a fruitful adventure.