We are enjoying a quiet, peaceful, April Shower kind of day. Just what we needed! A break from landscape clean up. It is such a gentle rain it makes me wish I had planted something. But, I am in a spring planting lull. I am beginning to move things out of the workshop and into the cold frame to harden off. This is a good day for that. They won't be too hot and they won't scorch in the sun. I can just put them out there and relax.
Yesterday I brought out the El Brighto coleus cuttings I took from my lightly frosted plants last fall. They hung out in the workshop all winter at 55F. They got pretty pale at that temp, but when I turned the heat up to 60 a few weeks ago they colored up real nice and started putting on growth. I deleted a couple over the winter that just didn’t root in well but ended up with 15 gorgeous plants. I cleaned out all of the dead leaves, spread them out into two trays to give them room, and watered them in well.
Yesterday we cut the last landscape bed edge. We are out of old mulch and waiting for this year's truckload, but we are prepped and ready to roll. It was a good day to dilly dally and check on the roots of the Linden trees.
We all believe we are not over mulching and creating mulch volcanoes around our trees, but it never hurts to check. I raked the old mulch away from the trunk flares and checked for any strangling roots. Each tree had a few that needed to be removed, but nothing too dramatic. I just used pruners to snip these sections out where they cross the larger roots and gave each tree an apologetic foot rub.
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