March Through That Checklist
(Garden • )
You wait and wait and wait until the time and temperature is right and then – Bam! – everything needs to be done at the same time:
→ Harden off the tomato and pepper seedlings
→ Trim dead banana leaves from the Raja Puri
→ Trim the dead leaves from the rest of the bananas
→ Cut down the stalks from the banana plants that already fruited
→ Dig up and pot whatever’s still alive among the Goldfinger bananas that don’t really like as much cold as we get
→ Trim back the Pink Trumpet Vine
→ Bring the hibiscus seedlings outside to start hardening
→ Bring the plumeria plants that don’t need repotted out of the garage, park in the sun and revive with water
→ Trim the roots and replant the three really big plumeria plants in the ground out front (OK, two out of three)
→ Trim back the tropical wisteria vine
→ Bring the yearling plumeria plants from the upstairs light room outside
→ Apply Superbloom to the plumeria cuttings already outside and waking from dormancy
→ Re-pot root-bound plumeria into bigger pots
→ Trim back the hibiscus plants and start cuttings from the trimmings
→ Re-pot hibiscus plants as needed
→ Haul off the piles of vine and banana trimmings
→ Hold a confab of neighbors to get buy-in on the fence line where I want to expand the garden
→ Till the old portion of the garden again and plant tomatoes
→ Dig the new garden and fashion the raised beds
→ Put up a new fence.
Just writing the list makes me sweat.
→ B.Dunn, Mar 10, 2009, 03 22 pm
