I think I need to set up a tripod and camera when I do yard clearing and just take photos of the progress when I take breaks and do a timelapse.

Not because I want to plaster it on the internet (but I probably will because who doesn't love a chaos to ... well, with me it will never be order, but it will be different... time lapse?

Mostly so I can look and go "yes, I did make progress today". There's something in my brain that moves the goalposts of how much progress I've made. Not sure if it's a childhood trauma thing or a neurodiverse thing, but I really can't properly gauge progress without a visual before and after. And I'm so bad at taking the before photos.

But, we have rain in the forecast through Sunday, so I think the current pivot is going to be getting the rest of the raised beds put together and start working on getting those in place.

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Okay, I think I've ordered the last of the plants for ... now. Look, we all know how plant math goes. That and I have a big expanse that I plan to do unwise things to in the autumn for tulips and narcissus next year.

I ordered some purple asparagus crowns and rhubarb crowns to get established in a raised bed. I also ordered some sunchoke tubers and snacking cucumber plants because I didn't plant any of those...

We also have some hostas coming to replace the spindly weird plants I don't love in the borders, some creeping thyme, a recommended not-daisy that's known here as Spanish Summer Daisy (Spanisches Sommer-Gänseblümchen), and more gladiola bulbs because I do love them so much. A few more strawberry varieties (because I have a problem), and some poppy seeds, some petunias, and a lovely deep burgundy rose (Black Baccara).

I know that the sunchokes will probably want to spread and I'm wondering if containing them to a raised bed will be sufficient or if I should put them in a container. I plan on harvesting them for the edible tubers, but I have heard many tales of the impossibility of getting them all.

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