March 10, 2026
gardening, planting log, herbaceous | permalink
While preparing the right raised vegetable bed for planting, I dug up about 10 blue violets. I only noticed them because of the long, dense root system, which I became familiar with last year as I dug them out of the same place when they had lots of leaves. No leaves on them this time of year, just little stubby stems with the very beginning of green shoots. I also noticed that something was starting to emerge from what I'd planted into pots in the fall and placed between the two beds. I picked up one pot and it was labeled as three lupines and, as luck would have it, it had three seedlings coming up. I didn't do a thorough evaluation of how everything was doing, though in some pots there's nothing yet and in others there were more lupines.
Off both sets of plants went to the roadside meadow. After removing a chunk of grass along the mulched area, I put the blue violets on the border with the (cursed) lawn and the lupines a few inches in. I looked around for any sign of the lupines that I planted there, but didn't see any. That area gets much less sun than where the pots in the vegetable garden are, so hopefully it's just a matter of soil temperature and later germination/growth rather not growing or deer eating them. In any case, I'm going to let the other lupines stay in their pots to get a bit bigger before I move them, in the hope that the deer won't eat them after a certain size.
