Projects to do
I have a couple of gardening projects coming to fruition this week...now I just have to get them completed. (SMILE)
Lavender Bed
I picked up 5 lavender plants in 2 different varieties yesterday to start our new lavender bed. With the recent rains and cooler temperatures, it seems a good time to move forward with that. I am looking for soem amendments to place in this bed as I do the planting. What would you work into the bed to give it a bit more friability and lighten it? The soil here currently seems a bit heavy and prone to compaction. I am thinking of working in some compost or some topsoil from the nursery. Let me know your preferences in the comments below.
Garden Shed
I casually mentioned to a neighor friend that I wanted to tear down the old 1943 garden shed that was decaying in my back garden. I want to re-build it as something more useful for both storage, garden work and maybe even a small office to use for my writing, etc. He was very keen on "getting out some agression" so now I have to make it happen before he loses interest. I think it is time to go get some wrecking bars and prybars and get to work. It isn't that big of a shed, but I shudder to think what I will discover inside its walls.
Overhead
It is also time to do some light pruning of the smaller trees in the garden. A few more weeks and we will start to see leaves on the trees and the wisteria again, so I have to get my act together soon. Basically, this light pruning cleans up any obviously dead branches and neaten up the habit, since I can now see the branch structure clearly wihtout the foliage.
posted by Douglas at 1:57 PM
1 Comments:
Regarding soil amendments for your lavender, I'd go very light, if at all. My method in our heavy clay soils of Santa Barbara is to dig a rough hole, slightly LESS deep than the container, so that when you put the plant in, it will sit with the crown a little higher than finish grade. Break the soil up and add just a tiny bit of well composted organic wood-base product. The key is to innoculate the soil with a myccorhizal fungus product. You might have to hunt a bit.
Wikipedia has some great articles in mycco. My local pro garden center sells it in a soluable form, which works great. If you're not familiar with what mycco does, a few google searches should sell you on using it for life. In a nutshell, it's a thread-like fungus that attaches to the roots, extending the mass of the root system to take up more water and find more nutrients.
Give it a try. Hope this helps.
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