Garden projects and a Viral Video

This year I have decided to limit the amount of annual flowers I plant in containers and windowboxes because I have a lot of perennial beds to look after and we expanded our vegetable gardens this year as well but I did pick up a few plants on our anniversary road trip that needed planted.....

As usual Calvin was around to lend a hand where needed......

I love this early clematis vine (Guernsey Cream), I have it climbing up a trellis in front of the kitchen windows.

This is the start of the moss basket I plant every summer, you start with a wire basket-shaped frame and line it with moss then line the moss with a dark plastic trash bag and fill the bag with  potting soil.  Then you take a knife and poke holes in the plastic and gently add plants from the outside in through the spaces in the wire basket frame, through the moss and finally through the hole you cut in the plastic liner so that the plant roots are in the middle of the basket where the soil is....

I keep adding plants and filling the basket layer by layer building up the sides with  more moss and soil and plants (the basket is a bit hard to see hanging in the maple tree with the hedge behind it...everything is green...

Here is a closer look, I covered the plastic that was showing with another handful of moss and kept on building upwards.....

Herb plants to put in a little "kitchen garden" clay pot that I am going to put outside my kitchen door..hopefully it will inspire some meals this summer...

Final picture of the moss basket...over the summer these plants should keep growing until the basket looks like a giant ball of blossoms.

Herb garden planter consisting of; basil, oregano, dill, rosemary sage and lavender.

I'm including a link to a very funny video made by some students from Sussex, New Brunswick...a farming community not far from here.  It has gone viral and I think the boys are going to be on the "Ellen Degeneres" show....it takes a minute for the video to start...but it's worth it, here it is:

From Sussex and I Know it