Whoo! I'm not as young as I used to be!

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Registered: 12-12-1997
Whoo! I'm not as young as I used to be!
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Tue, 07-14-2009 - 12:47pm

I just went out and dug up three daylily clumps and replanted them somewhere else, and I'm beat!  Granted, the ground was dry and hard, but, still, I thought I could manage that without exhausting myself!


How will I ever manage to dig out the hostas I want to move?  I wish it would rain so the ground would be softer!



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Registered: 09-01-2003
Tue, 07-14-2009 - 8:42pm

gardening in the heat makes it worse,too. soak the haosta from the hose before digging up.


i have to do all that too sometime. i've been saying that a few eeks...lol won't move the lily & iris til fall.

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Registered: 09-12-2003
Wed, 07-15-2009 - 6:45am
Gardening IS quite a work out ,,,,
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Registered: 12-12-1997
Wed, 07-15-2009 - 9:04am

Yes, it might be something Tom would help me with. I want to give some of them to dd when she's here this weekend, though, so it would have to be done Saturday morning


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Registered: 09-01-2003
Wed, 07-15-2009 - 9:42am

once i get outside in the garden & dirt i overdo too! it is soo easy to do. i love playing in the garden dirt!


i don't think i will learn not to do this when i have to be to work early the next day!

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Registered: 02-07-2001
Wed, 07-15-2009 - 11:23am
That's quite the workout huh? ;-)
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Registered: 03-14-2007
Wed, 07-15-2009 - 9:41pm

That's why I don't plant anything that would need thinning out..way too much work!! We need to do a little weeding, but it's too darned hot outside now!


Like Pat said, soak those hostas first! Go easy on yourself ol' gal! LOL!!




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Registered: 09-12-2003
Thu, 07-16-2009 - 4:39am
I also soak the plant or section first before diggin it up,,,, makes it very muddy and yucky (but galoshes take care of that) but it's so much easier,,, and I think better for the plant.
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Registered: 12-12-1997
Thu, 07-16-2009 - 10:08am
I soaked the area well last night, so I'm hoping when I go out today (pretty soon), the ground will be soft, but not too muddy.

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Registered: 12-12-1997
Thu, 07-16-2009 - 11:25am

Today's adventure in the Ann D. Gardening Method....


Put on baseball cap with hair tucked under and out the back... Got shovel out, and a bucket for dd's clump of hosta... Dug up half the huge hosta... Stepped in hole... Lost shoe... Retrieved shoe... Divided big hosta clump and put some in bucket (could have used a shallower bucket)... Dug up small hosta... Hit head on tree... Moved


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Registered: 03-14-2007
Thu, 07-16-2009 - 12:13pm
Read Ann's gardening essay...Glad she made it through all of that okay...Reinforced my thoughts to never get plants that need thinning...Getting thoughts of gardening out of my mind...Going to begin my new book now...It has nothing to do with gardening...LOL!!




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