Trail Seeker

Next week is the garden tour in a near by town. Nine private residencial gardens are on display, these folks open their gardens and share with the surrounding communities. The proceeds generated from the tourist are used to help fund the Master Gardening program. I will be the host at one of the gardens, it just so happens they have the same last name, and it isn't as common of a name as others. One of their garden claim to fame is a number of rose plants, one of which was carried over in the back of a wagon back in the 1850's by their ancestors.

This morning was the pre-meeting and since it wasn't in our town, my wife accompanied me. While I was at the meeting, my wife walk around down town, afterwards we went to the farmers market so she could get some flowers. It is a small market on Saturdays, but they did have a band performing, which added to the atmosphere.

This afternoon was spent transplanting plants into the raised garden bed, and propagating some new starts from a plant we got at the farmers market. I don't know what it is called even though I looked at it's name, my wife didn't remember either. It is a perenial ground spreading plant with small blue flowers. The other plants I have started are thyme and stevia. I need to replace the thyme plant as grass has gotten into its tightly bunched branches and very difficult to weed, replacing it is my prefered way.

This evening I worked on my wifes garden pond, finished back filling it and prepping it for some edging stones. I have some hops plants near by that have done well the past few years climbing up a service pole, but this year it reminds me of kudzu. I need to prune it back and next spring thin the crowns and get some starts. Hops is used as a bittering agent in beer, I have it because it does a splendid job covering the utility pole.