I needed to get a few things done in the garden today but I had a limited amount of time to do it. The oldest girl (2 years) went down for her nap just when the youngest one (just over 5 months) woke up from her nap. When their naps overlap is when I can get something done, but that didn’t work out today. Eventually the youngest fell asleep again for her second nap and I was left with 45 minutes of garden time.
Here’s what I did with my time:
- I planted two more ‘Homestead Purple’ Verbenas. They were a $1.99 4″ pots at the nearby nursery. A great price for a great plant! We picked them up on Saturday. I put one on the opposite side of the verbena at the mailbox garden and the other is near some salvia in our front porch garden.
- I planted two more Silver Mound Artemisias. They were also $1.99 4 ” pots. These went in the new sidewalk garden.
- I planted a very nice looking white flowering astilbe that was a $2.99 find. It’s now hanging out with the heucheras in the shade garden. That sounds like a good segment for Gardening by the Yard, “Hanging with the Heucheras.”
- I planted 8 White Impatiens in the shade garden. I mixed them in the gaps toward the front border near the coleus.
- I transplanted a daylily to the opposite side of the sidewalk next to a large rock.
- Then I planted my ‘Walker’s Low’ Catmint (Nepeta x faassenii) where the daylily had been in the front garden.
- I also put in two more Roma tomato plants in the vegetable garden. Viva Italia! That’s the variety name.
- After all that planting I bet you can guess what I did next. Watered!
It was then that I began to hear the children on the baby monitor. The rest of the garden would have to wait!
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Dave,
A very productive day and then some delightful time with children…that is a good life. Who was it that wrote ‘Everything I learned About Life I learned In Kindergarten’? Activity, rest, activity, rest…
Gail
When mine were little Sesame Street used to be on for an hour and they used to sit and stare at it. I could see them through the window while I cut the grass and did weeding. It was the best bit of the day!
You got a lot accomplished in a short period of time Dave! One day soon those two little bundles of joy will big digging right along beside you…
You were busy. It is hard to get it all in such a short time! Good job!
Wow!!!! It would take me 2 hours to do all that!!!
Great time management! It’s amazing just how much you can accomplish in a little time, once you set your back to it.
Well done. You must have been really moving. I remember the baby monitor in the garden days. Now they are all big boys.
Great moves Dave. You sure got a lot done in a short span of time. Would’ve took me all day to do that. Cane in one hand & plant in the other. Makes me nervous to be so slow. Oh well.
I remember those days. Good work!
HA, you must be a man afire out in the garden during nap times to get all that done. Your mailbox bed must be shaping up nicely with those additions. I saw Walker’s Low at a nursery in Asheville this weekend, I hadn’t seen one before in real life. The flowers are so much bigger than the species. Good selection. Love all astilbes.
When you have limited time you work fast I guess. If the youngest is napping and the oldest isn’t we still go out, things just go a little slower. She has fun though! The other day she found a worm. She carried that little worm around with her until it was time to go inside. We tried to explain to her that worms live in the dirt. For a while she wouldn’t put the worm back into the dirt because “it would get dirty!” We finally got her to put the worm down in some dirt before we went inside.
After my wife went inside with the baby my worm activist little girl came running back to the spot where she put the worm down and said “goodnight worm.”
Later from inside she sung the “Time for sleeping song” for the worm.
Frances,
That was the first time I had seen it in a store also. I had to buy it. I put it near the front porch in our front sidewalk garden. I’m looking forward to seeing how the astilbe works with the hostas and heucheras.
What a precious memory you will now have of your daughter and worms! Who would have thought a worm could cause so much excitment in your life. I will now think of your daughter when I find a worm! Sweet story….
Oh Dave, out of the mouth of babes! It should be an ad for a credit card (can’t remember which one) as it is a “priceless” as it can get!!!