On the Summer Solstice Sunday morning I was out a bit later, by 6:30AM, as I wanted to wash the cabinet the carpenter had fixed. I was determined to get the chamomile in the ground and mulched. When I went to get it from the cold frame, I found 6 pots of blue flax also. I’d cleared their bed so I brought them too. They are all in and mulched. I was starting to get wiped out by 8:30 even though the humidity was lower than Saturday, so I quit before I was dead.
This is what the rest of the 2 rows look like.
In the process of cleaning out there was a lot of dill volunteers. I stopped and harvested them, and the Damascus roses that had opened, for the dehydrators.
This is the garden East of Steps. The pansies are putting up a brave battle against the weeds. A maiden pink, very tall, is growing in front of them. I won’t even show West of Steps, it’s all 2’ high grass…. Someday…
In the New South garden the 2 hollyhocks are doing well. So far, the rust hasn’t found them like it has all the others. This is the perennial hollyhock.
This is the figleaf hollyhock next to it.
Later on I got the dehydrator loaded and the dishes moves into the cabinet I’d washed. It was mostly a sad day spent reading and sleeping.
On Monday I hope to clean out the rest of Row 1 in the New Herb garden. The humidity is forecast to be brutal and the temps zooming into the 90’s. The rest of the day is a road trip with a friend driving to CT. I’ve found a marble shelf and we are going to look at it to see if I can use it in the pantry. I do hope so, as I’ve not found anything else. Or if I did it was exorbitantly expensive.
I will have started up the AC again as it was too warm Sunday night to cool the house. The carpenter will be working in the pantry.