May Day Work in the Garden

I spent May Day working in the garden. Our backyard was feeling neglected after a long stretch of dreary cold weather, so the sun outside got me motivated for an impromptu work party. Plus I had a number of plants languishing in their store pots and wanted to get them potted up in their permanent homes before the temperatures go up this weekend (please let them go up!). Of course, one thing led to another so after the potting was done I did some more pruning and overdue winter cleanup and put tomato cages around a few of the blueberry bushes. I haven’t tried that before but last summer they got so floppy that this should help keep them reined in.

I thought about staging this supply shot more carefully than what I did (which was raise the patio umbrella so the sun wasn’t blinding the shot) but hey – this is real life! I’m planting pots in the midst of refereeing kid battles.

I ended up planting up a few hanging baskets, a mixed herb pot I got from Trader Joe’s that was hideously root-bound and a miniature rose and lemon thyme I got as gifts awhile back. I love how happy plants look when you get them out of their too-small containers and into fresh soil and a long drink of water. They seem to perk up and look fresher almost instantly. We’ll enjoy these plants on our patio (and in our meals) all summer long.