My Costa Rican adventure resulted in a torn rotator cuff in my left shoulder. I had surgery to repair the tear in late February. My shoulder and arm were immobilized for six weeks.
As a result, my spring gardening has been little more that looking and dreaming. I have managed to pull a few weeds, but I have been ordered to do no pushing, pulling or lifting with any resistance for now, and nothing more than a few pounds for the summer. That means no digging, hoeing or using the lawn mower.
My yard is showing the effects. It is rather sad. But, I have had a couple of surprises. This beautiful white iris came up this week. It is a lone one, but perfect. I also have lovely purple flag iris near the white one. I like this color combination, and might plan more purple and white in that bed.
Before I injured myself, we dug up part of the front yard and put in two beds of liriope. It is doing pretty well. I had planned to have walking paths between them, but we have decided to plant vegetables there. I am going to try corn again this year. Last year my eight plants were wonderful. Unfortunately my tomatoes were a failure last year. They were in a new bed and the soil was not good. I have 12 tomato plants growing in seed cups in southern windows. They can go out soon.
We (that is an editorial we, I just watched) cleaned out the fish pond last weekend, and re-filled it with rain water from the rain barrels. There were about a dozen good size fish in the pond. I also found one frog. They seem happy in the clean home. In the fall we had thinned out the plant life, so the pond is looking great.
As a result, my spring gardening has been little more that looking and dreaming. I have managed to pull a few weeds, but I have been ordered to do no pushing, pulling or lifting with any resistance for now, and nothing more than a few pounds for the summer. That means no digging, hoeing or using the lawn mower.
My yard is showing the effects. It is rather sad. But, I have had a couple of surprises. This beautiful white iris came up this week. It is a lone one, but perfect. I also have lovely purple flag iris near the white one. I like this color combination, and might plan more purple and white in that bed.
Before I injured myself, we dug up part of the front yard and put in two beds of liriope. It is doing pretty well. I had planned to have walking paths between them, but we have decided to plant vegetables there. I am going to try corn again this year. Last year my eight plants were wonderful. Unfortunately my tomatoes were a failure last year. They were in a new bed and the soil was not good. I have 12 tomato plants growing in seed cups in southern windows. They can go out soon.
We (that is an editorial we, I just watched) cleaned out the fish pond last weekend, and re-filled it with rain water from the rain barrels. There were about a dozen good size fish in the pond. I also found one frog. They seem happy in the clean home. In the fall we had thinned out the plant life, so the pond is looking great.
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