Gardening Diary – April 30, 2021

Sharon fertilized all the plants in Straw bale beds #3-4, 7-8 and sprayed diatomaceous earth on all the plants in straw bale beds #3-4.

Straw bale beds #7-8

Picture taken April 30, 2021.

Cut the drip hose on straw bale beds #7-8 at the place where the hose leaves straw bale bed #8. Attached a piece of the irrigation hose to the drip hose at the latter cut and placed the irrigation hose in 1 inch PVC pipe of sufficient lengths so that the irrigation hose and the PVC pipe spanned the walkway between straw bale beds #7 and #8. Attached the irrigation hose to the rest of the drip hose which can now make a double loop on straw bale bed #7.

Original Spice bed.

Picture taken April 30, 2021.

Weeded the original spice bed and mulched the plants, Chinese Fringe-Flower [Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum], Millennium Allium Ornamental Onion [Allium ‘Millennium’], and what is hopefully a Sentimental Blue Balloon Flower [Platycodon grandiflorus ‘Sentimental Blue’].


Additional photographs (6) taken today:

Fern Bed

Picture taken April 30, 2021.

Bressingham Hybrids Coral Bells

[Huchera x brizoides ‘Bressingham Hybrids’]

Picture taken April 30, 2021.

Heuchera, Fern

[Heuchera sp.],

Picture taken April 30, 2021.

Heuchera

[Heuchera sp.]

Picture taken April 30, 2021.

Creeping Buttercup

[Ranunculus repens]

Picture taken April 30, 2021.

Virginia Creeper

[Parthenocissus quinquefolia]

Picture taken April 30, 2021.