But I have to pace myself, and rest for a couple days in between. I still have to baby my foot and I have limited stamina.
It's only partly the actual kneeling and digging --mostly these small tasks require walking back and forth, gathering tools and equipment, wrestling the hose, getting up and down, cleaning everything up, etc.
What are all the little tasks?
- Spread chicken grit I got around the Kannah Creek buckwheat and other plants too. Maybe the newly transplanted Pawnee Buttes sandcherry that wants sharp drainage.
- Move the Appar flax from in front of the brown urn to another spot by the fence.
- Transplant the one stranded Turkish speedwell clump that is in the stones by the deck.
- Plant the remaining two Radio Red salvias in the circle garden.
- Plant the dwarf goldenrod by the fence.
- Dig up the orange Kudos agastaches and put them in the taller vase.
- Divide the blue sedum in the terra cotta container and plant divisions among the moss rock border.
- Dig up the surviving ajugas and put them under the bench in the circle garden.
- Maybe transplant the white coneflowers from the potting bench curve (in shade) to the sunny front of the kitchen courtyard?
There are bigger projects for later. Eventually I need to dig up all the struggling ajugas to get ready to plant Angelina sedums there. I need to get under the pine and remove the dead branches, then order and place a new low copper birdbath.
And I have plant orders to research, place, receive, and put in the ground this fall. That's a lot.