Progress report

Since you're dying to know, I got twenty daylilies planted yesterday, but I have twenty-six to go!

Turns out the clumps of five were already separated, so I planted them as singles . Maybe in the next round I'll double up on a few, considering the shortage of space I have . It took three hours - as expected . Not as expected I only forgot something once - the mycorrhizae on the first plant . I also discovered that I apply total concentration to the job at hand . (Must be the new mega-vitamins).  No meandering thoughts on off-topic issues. I wonder why that is . Ah-ha, DH's plan to get me organized has worked!!

I started out on the cool side of the house, using the one-hole-at-a-time method with the bucket of daylilies strapped to the semi-rusty luggage cart, compost in the wheelbarrow and amendments in the handy carrier all close at hand . It went quite smoothly and one might even say leisurely . Then I moved to the blow-torch side of the house . Setting sun or not, Old Sol would not give up easily . So for the last six I used the assembly-line method . Had to get it over with quick . I was starting to burn and weaken, and the GatorAde had begun to cloy .

As I progressed and looked at the work done behind me, I was very pleased . My mind framed the shots that the camera should have taken, and I smiled . I'll take them tomorrow . So the back gardens are almost full but not packed like the front . A few more spaces left to fill with daylilies . Then up the sideyard and into the front . I'll have to really think that through, since these are permanent plantings that will fill the spots that annuals have taken . That's a good thing . Annuals leave voids in the winter, and the more that's green during the long winter the better I like it.