{"id":20985,"date":"2025-07-31T21:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20985"},"modified":"2025-08-05T21:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:23:36","slug":"daily_3803_-_planting_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/07\/31\/daily_3803_-_planting_day\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3803 &#8211; planting day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planted berry bushes in the new area, and started on the ground cover.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3803_garden_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One redcurrant bush, one blackcurrant, and one gooseberry. I love all of these for eating and cooking, and it&#8217;s very rare to be able to buy them here. If you want any, you need to grow your own. I tried a gooseberry bush in a planter box, but as with everything else I tried growing in the boxes, it required eternal watering and mostly died the moment I stopped. This corner of the garden is in partial shade (not great for berry bushes) and there&#8217;s other things here competing for resources, but the soil here is good and shouldn&#8217;t dry out in the same way, so maybe this will work.<\/p>\n<p>Underneath, it&#8217;s simple ground cover plants. Some Epimedium at the back, Waldsteinia towards the left, Geranium macrorrhizum in the middle. I&#8217;m not at all fond of the bare earth (or mulch-covered earth) look. These have all been successful in other parts of the garden, so the odds are good.<\/p>\n<p>What hasn&#8217;t thrived at all is day lilies (Hemerocallis). I&#8217;ve put them in two places and they&#8217;ve been weedy little things, literally no larger than a small tuft of grass. There, at the top left, surrounded by the Waldsteinia. They&#8217;re supposed to be pretty hardy, but apparently not here. They&#8217;re going out as soon as I have time to buy a replacement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3803_garden_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planted berry bushes in the new area, and started on the ground cover. One redcurrant bush, one blackcurrant, and one gooseberry. I love all of these for eating and cooking, and it&#8217;s very rare to be able to buy them here. If you want any, you need to grow your own. I tried a gooseberry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-house_and_garden","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20985"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20989,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20985\/revisions\/20989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}