Keeping my perennial garden healthy and growing
by kbean
Gardening Journey Overview
Follow this step-by-step gardening journey to see real progress updates, challenges overcome, and practical experience.
Progress Updates (2 total)
Update #1: Keeping my perennial garden healthy and growing
Want to track the growth in my perennial flower garden! It’s a lot of work weeding, mulching and planting perennials/taking care of them so they come back year after year
Challenges Overcome: Last sunday I weeded the entire flower bed on my hands and knees (ouch!) and mulched everywhere.
Obstacles Faced: I know some plants won’t come back this year for some reason so I am anticipating that
Looking Back: I learned that it was definitely best to wait for mulching until after things started to poke through the ground. I was worried that the mulch would be too dense
Update #2: things are popping up!
25% completethings are starting to come up through the bark mulch and starting to see things that i wasn’t sure made it through the winter
Challenges Overcome: i finally started to see some things that i planted last summer like a lot of cone flowers! the lillie’s of the valley are in full force too!
Obstacles Faced: need to be consistent with watering and really soak the garden on hot days.
Looking Back: be patient and remember that some things take longer to pop up through the ground!