So despite an early-morning shower of rain, I got outdoors and replanted the irises right between the jonquils and the anthuriums. The worst part of it was having to weed that section of bed before I could do anything else; it took the better part of an hour to root out the spurge and goose grass and henbit. After that, the replanting was no trouble at all.
Later (like after noon and a lie-down), I went to the nursery after basil. Almost all the sweet basil was gone, but I got one six-pack and some purple and African blue basils also. Then I couldn’t restrain myself, and bought a slew of tomato plants (two varieties of ordinary red and one yellow variety), some dill, and some peppermint. I put all that in while L dug up a stand of spring onions in one area of the front yard, in aid of being able to spray for a horrible infestation of catchweed bedstraw (the nurseryman said he thought the broadleaf herbicide would kill the onions as well, so I figured we might’s well dig them up and eat them instead of killing ’em off). Now the sink is full of onions and half the house smells of them (not that there’s anything wrong with that!), and the bedstraw and any other broadleaf weed I could find (dandelions, wild lettuce, wild carrots, henbit, spurge, etc. etc.) have been sprayed. Provided the rain holds off until tonight or (even better) tomorrow, I should be in good shape.
It’s time for another lie-down.
New Delhi directed a gelatinous teddy bear. Fnord.
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