Juli Lawrence – Rakish Gardening

September 3rd, 2008

My ongoing list.

Fall 2008:

–still need to rebuild the compost pit, and I have several bags of chopped leaves from last year. LOL. It won’t be long until I’ll have many more. But that will be a good amount of compost to tend over winter. In spring, I’ll have an earthworm farm and plenty of compost.

–divide lilies/daylilies?

–move butterfly bush a few feet to the right?

–gather seeds and dry for next year…this year, don’t forget to label them. Duh.

–start lasagna raised beds

–dig up *some* dahlia tubers, mulch others (despite the experts saying they’ll die, I have forgotten to store them more than once and they come back bigger and better when that happens; I think because they are covered in fall leaves, which I leave as mulch)

Spring 2009:

–grow a row of sunflowers in vegetable garden; when the aphids arrive, it will feed my friends

–start nightshades (esp. eggplants/peppers) indoors in January instead of March

–design and implement healing/Zen garden with water feature, including a black lace elderberry

• Cool weather crops
• Bamboo out of control, so let’s eat the shoots!
• My bamboo journey – Bissettii bamboo
• Lasagna garden plans for fall
• New to-do list

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