Jedi by Knight

Hi everyone!  My Camp Nano project is going decently well; I’ve managed a few hundred words nearly every day this month so far.

Today was gorgeous out, so I took a break to get some of my garden beds in order.  Two weeks ago we had some beautiful crocuses near our front steps.

But now the flowers are gone, so I needed to get the dead oak leaves and acorns out, and put mulch in.  Because I was too lazy to do this in the fall.

Everything looks much neater now.  I have some snapdragons in that bed that somehow keep coming back every year, so I pulled all the crocus leaves out of the way to give them some space and light.

Foliage from bulbs, like crocuses, can’t be cut right away because it’s producing the food that the plant will need to bloom and grow again next year.  I tied mine in loose bundles with some string, which is still not ideal since it can limit the amount of photosynthesis the leaves can do.  But as you can see, we have a lot of crocuses and I won’t cry if a few don’t bloom next year.  I’d rather the snapdragons not die.