Yesterday it was finally mild enough that the Chief and I could go out and play in the dirt. We dug up the patch where I tried to grow squash last year, sifting through the dirt to look for and remove squash borer grubs. I've got some seeds saved from a butternut squash that I'm trying to start indoors. If they germinate, they'll go into that patch. Now that I have a better idea of what to look for, I'm hoping the squash borers will leave my plants alone this year.
We also did some cleaning up - raking up leaves, cutting back ivy & vinca, doing a good bit of weeding. I also planted one little phlox plant in the bed next to the driveway. I hope the ice plant doesn't crowd it out.
The Chief has some anemone (bulbs? corms?) that he bought a couple of years ago. We'll finally get those babies into the ground sometime this week and hope they grow.
I've had a pretty high mortality rate among my bulbs. I don't know if something ate them or they died of thirst, but we plan to buy a big batch this fall and hope they come up next spring.
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