Weeding and Morning Glories
Before weeding
I was able to get out early (or at least early for me at 10 am) to get some weeding done. The tulips that feebly tried to bloom this year just grew leaves, no actual flowers so they came up along with some weeds and grass that was growing in the flower bed.
After weeding
I had to be careful to only take up the tulip bulbs cause there are other bulbs in the same bed that were planted a couple weeks ago. It wasn’t too tough to tell the difference though cause the tulip ones were mostly soggy and squishy – I understand now why they never put out flowers – they weren’t in good shape.
Morning Glory seedling
Yesterday I was able to plant my Morning Glories (Convolvulus major) in a container. They’re under a trellis so they’ll be able to climb up it. The seeds were planted April 5 in peat pots because I was told Morning Glories don’t like to be transplanted. I’m not exactly sure what colors they’re going to be, but the seed package had purple and pink flowers on it.
I have 8 or 10 seedlings in the container, I hope that’s not too many. Some of them don’t look so great because I was out of town for the weekend and no one watered any of the plants for me. I guess I should have made sure someone would do it for me.
On the other side of the trellis are Hollyhocks Chaters double. We’ve always had the hollyhocks in that spot and until this year they’ve always self-seeded. I think there was too much dead stuff under there though and the seeds weren’t able to reach the soil. So we dug it all up a couple weeks ago and I planted the Chaters double last week. They should take 15 ro 25 days to germinate.
Zinnia Seeds
I also planted some Zinnia seeds this morning. I wasn’t sure about the quality of the soil in this container so I dumped it out into a big bucket to see what it was like. It looked good so I put it back in and was amazed to see that it took almost 1/4 less soil to fill it back up. It must have been really compacted in there. I’m glad I decided to empty it and refill it otherwise I think the tiny roots would have had a hard time trying to grow. The seeds should germinate in 5 to 8 days.
Well, I’m off to the garden center this afternoon to get some dirt and more flowers (not that I really need them……).
