The more rain we get, the more garden plans I come up with

Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:46 am

It started just before 5:30 a.m. this morning, Sunday, Sept. 17th. Thunder that rattled the windows a couple of times, a few lightning flashes and rain...beautiful, wet, heavy rain. When I got up there was almost an inch in the really large rain gauge out back.

Today is my second favorite kind of day. Heavy overcast all day and several really good soaker rains. It ended just about 6:30 p.m. leaving 1.5 inches on my yard. We met Lisa,Kenny and the boys at The Flying Fish for Kenny's birthday supper and I let him know that only someone important could get me to leave the house on a precious rainy day.

Tomorrow will be too wet to work out back, that's okay since I broke the handle on my garden fork last Friday and have to buy another one before I can start working on the expansion plans I have been thinking about.

The rainy day gave me the time to get my gardening notebook caught up. I know, I tend to get a little carried away with organizing things sometimes, but this way when I have a question about the care and feeding of one of my plants I can go to the notebook. I started it last year when I began planning on applying for National Wildlife Federation certification.
I have printed out info sheets on all the plants I have out back, except the annuals that won't last the winter and will print new ones for the herbs and annuals I actually buy next spring. And I have info sheets on plants I hope to get next year. I have them in the notebook by yard sections, even have some different types of gardens in the planning stages for next year.
For instance, around the wishing well I will build next spring, I am going to have plants/flowers that correspond with the birth month of close family members. There will be honeysuckle climbing on the well for June (Lisa and Amanda), Larkspur in blue for July (Randy and grandson Nicky), Red Carnations (or dianthus if necessary) for January (Randy's Dad), Daffodils for March (Randy's Mom), Rain Lily's for April (Me), Daisies for May (my Mom), Asters (Texas (Fall) Asters)for Sept (Kenny) and a Dwarf Burford Holly for December (oldest grandson Austin).

I started printing out pictures of plants for the secret garden and the herb garden and the new garden out front. Even printed out info sheets on plants I want but have no idea where I would put them.

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dooley wrote on Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:17 am:

Gosh, you are organized. I do well to get the plants in the garden. I just decided where to plant them after I buy them. Dooley

Gardenstew wrote on Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:58 am:

I think people organise in different ways, one person's method may look like chaos to another but it is an organised chaos.

Just curious Toni, if...
>>> Heavy overcast all day and several really good soaker rains <<<
... is your second favourite kind of day what is your favourite kind?

toni wrote on Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:28 pm:

There really is a streak of OCD that runs thru my family, I sometimes get an overwhelming need to re-organize some part of my life and can not do anything else until it is done. The gardening notebook has been done and now I can get on with the next thing .... alphabetizing our bookcase has been niggling at the back of my mind for weeks. :)

My absolute first favorite kind of day is COLD AND SNOWY. We don't get many here in north Texas. 25-30 years ago we could count on at least one pretty good snowfall a winter with snow staying on the ground for 2-3 days. But it has become increasingly rare since then.

Gardenstew wrote on Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:32 pm:

>>> My absolute first favorite kind of day is COLD AND SNOWY. <<<

I'm in total agreement there, it's a childhood remnant I think. There is something amazing about the sheer amount of white and seeing your breath constantly in front of you. Magical.

pondlady wrote on Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:36 pm:

Dooley, I garden like you do.

Toni, you may not be aware of this, but all the National Wildlife Federation wants from you is a sketch of your back yard, a few words and your money.
After that you will receive you certificate.
And after that you will begin getting pounds and pounds of junk email. I tend to contribute to them, so I get hundreds more pounds of junk mail.