Thursday, May 20

Three cubic yards of mulch are being delivered tomorrow. (Oh, my aching back.) While rain has soaked the yard and my flower beds, the moisture in the soil quickly disappeared. I have also discovered that my roof overhang keeps plants put in relatively close to the house do not get water no matter how hard it rains. I was hoping that water would seep back there through the soil, but it does not. So, it turns out that even when the remainder of the plants are thriving from spring rains, I still have to water the ones in the back. The tomato plants are loving the rain and have perked up greatly since I put them into the ground. The ones in the upside-down planter are hanging in there but I haven't seen much growth. I imagine once the weather gets hot, they will take off. I'm not complaining, though, as the cool weather over the past week has made working in the yard relatively easy.

A woman where I work told me she is digging up some huge hostas and clumps of daylilies for me to put into my backyard. This is a lucky break. While I have moved on, somewhat from daylilies, I still love them so very much that I could not resist her kind offer. I know just the place to put these plants. It will be in a part of the backyard that I wasn't committed to working on this year. Free plants, though, have changed my thinking a bit.

I'm hoping I can get the mulch all spread quickly. I have to go to Tennessee to visit my sister, who is ill, so the mulch spreading may have to wait until I return.