Started Digging Mums

Linda needed some mums to trade for some daylilies with a woman she works with at school. We opened our box of plastic pots and tossed them in the back of the pickup and grabbed a shovel. Cooter was prancing around, so I let the tailgate down and told him to jump in the truck. We all rode down to the mum patch and parked the truck next to the patch and got out and I started digging. Linda would grab the plants and place them in the pots and finish filling the pots with dirt. We used craft sticks to label the plants with the color of the blooms since they aren't blooming yet. Hey, that is an improvement over last year, we didn't know what color they were going to be until they bloomed last year. Linda burnt the type and color and some other info in pieces of pressure treated wood and we laid those at the end of the rows this year so we would know which ones were where. That worked good until the first big rain washed the pieces of wood down to one end of the patch. It was a good thing I had made a planting chart before we set the plants out, and then saved it on the PC. I printed out another sheet and we went back and placed the wood markers where they should have been.