Another use for 43 folders:

[bugshaw]

I've been admiring the spring flowers just blooming, and I'd like some of my own next spring. Where this plan always fails is in remembering to, um, actually plant bulbs at the right time. So I've done a bit of research, and my 43 folders now has an index card in the August slot reminding me to plan my planting, and that bulbs should be buried 2-3 times their own depth, in well drained soil. If I were really clever I'd put another card in the February slot reminding me to crow about how well this plan worked :-)

I've got my Gmail inbox below 850 at last, I want to get it to zero by the end of March. Unfortunately, in going through 100+ recent messages I've added another five things to tomorrow's Do list...

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[1ngi.livejournal.com]

And another card for late Sept/early Oct to buy and plant the bulbs - and to get assistance because it can be back ouchy.

This is my method for bulbs: http://1ngi.livejournal.com/93038.html

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Or, when the card comes up in August, make the planning decisions and write them on it then move the card into a later slot for the buying/planting action :-) Though given the amount of hard work involved (top planting tip btw - I read it at the time and must have internalised at least part) I should probably just pick an early autumn weekend and write 'gardening' in my diary! What with setting up raised beds 'n' all.

I'd also like to plant some climbers, clematis or something, against my shady south=facing fence. Probably in pots.

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

Do you have a big tree or something casting the shade? Because south facing sites are usually full sun. Not that this is a problem for clematis - they like their roots nice and cool in the shade and their heads in the sun higher up.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

If I might be permitted an enormous -Doh!-
It's the far side of the fence that faces south. The side in my garden faces north :-) I must think of it as south-facing because it's on the south side of my garden...

I think that's why I thought some clematis would work - nice and shady at the bottom, also not much sun at the top though unless it makes it over the top of the fence.

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

Ooo - my mum had a couple of clematis that flowered in full shade, one was called Nelly Moser and the other was Barbara Jackman. The Nelly Moser had big tea plate sized flowers in white with a candy pink strip down the centre of each petal.

Sorry - I shall stop the vicarious designing of your garden. I do tend to ramble on about plants...

[janetl.livejournal.com]

I have a system for bulbs. I buy the bulbs in the fall, and throw out the shriveled remains (still in the paper bag in the basement) in the spring.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Heh - I do this with vegetable seeds :-)

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I keep forgetting that there are intermediate steps between 'put packet of vegetable seeds in the greenhouse thingy' and 'eat tasty tomatoes'.

My parents gave me a big bag of bulbs for Christmas, which is perhaps not quite the right time to plant bulbs; there is a vague sight of some kind of flower-shaped object attempting to grow in one of the places that I put the bulbs in, but it's probably the pre-existing bluebells.

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

43 folders ?

I'm going to regret asking this....

[nallac.livejournal.com]

It's one of these "manage what your doing" systems. You have one folder per month, plus one folder for each day in the upcoming month.
You file anything due more than a month away into the appropriate month folder, and anything in the next month goes into the appropriate day folder.
Each day, you open today's folder, and all th bit you need to do and have are their, waiting for you.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Or buy a few pots of pretty flowering bulbs now for indoors/patio now. Then plant them out when they wilt. In theory, they won't flower next year because they've been forced this year and are knackered, but I find they usually do.