Deltaville Garden In

On Sunday nearly a dozen people for Memorial Day Sunday--Chris, Ryan, Leila, Chris's folks Tim and Laura and Jessica and Jared.  Jared and Chris played a few tunes including whisky before breakfast.

Put in the vegetable garden today in the usual place by the crawl space.  Put in three celebrity determinate tomato plants by the stairs, then three beefmaster indeterminate plants on back to the Lennox units.  In the front, by the units I put in three poblano chiles, then filling in the space to the walkway four serrano chiles.  Watered them well.  Trimmed the volunteer mimosa by the stairs.  I put a do not weedeat conference ribbon around one of the climbing trellises to warn rabbits away.

Planted the lily from mzbulbs, variety Alans Rouge deep burnt orange toward the house from the existing lily patch,  Noticed a canna lily from a summer past was sprouting there.

The peony by the electric meter was gone, probably from our overeager weedeater master.  All peony blooms by the stairs were also gone.  No sign of the tree peony nearby.  The peony by the back stairs was doing well.  I put a do not weedeat conference ribbon around it.

In other news, Caitlin examined our water pressure unit, finding 80 psi, in the crawlspace, a nominal value.

Only a little over a half dozen crabs in two traps, threw then back as we had bought  a dozen.

Spring 2018 plantings

Planted Iris among the peonies in the bed between the birdbath and the sundial below the house.  From S to N, all reblooming varieties, Immortality (white), Rosalie Figge (DeepViolet), Pink Attraction (more salmony than pink), Breakers (blue-violet) and Harvest of Memories (yellow).  Two weeks after receipt owing to trip to NM, they were somewhat dried out.  MZbulbs Inc were out of stock on the blue variety Clarence.

The peony on the south end had three blooms, two still good but weighted down.  The peony on the north end of the bed had two blooms considerably past their prime.