My gardening ethos has always been "can I find it for cheap/free?" Yesterday, *gulp* I actually spent....*shudder* money on something. I got a big load of (FREE) bricks that I want to lay down around the Pond. But I think that having the pond edged in native rocks will look a bit odd set against the formality of a brick path. So I've been trying to find some sort of "formal" looking edging for the pond and I found it yesterday at Lowe's. These curved concrete edgers that look like cobblestone paving. I .... bought.... them. They aren't perfect; their radius is smaller than the overall radius of the 8-foot diameter pond, but they will work and I think they will give me the look I want.
Got my Yukon Gold potatoes in the ground yesterday. The veg is saturated; I may be able to put in more potatoes later today, but other things will have to wait. Peas are up and doing well; I think I'll take off the protective fencing cages and put them onto regular "pea brush" support twigs.
Asparagus! For the first time in YEARS, I harvested asparagus. I got five nice spears and there are at least a few more coming on. Lots of little first-year spears, but only a few big enough to harvest. I am really surprised that the plants I put in last summer are doing so well; they are already equal in size to most of the 2-year plants.
Cleaned up a bit more in the Asian Garden, but the past couple days have been "run around" days, where I wasn't home much, doing errands. The To-Do list keeps getting longer.
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