May 11th, 2007 - Been busy in the garden!
Some of the things we’ve done in the last ten days include
* planting three apple trees
* planting 95% of the garden seeds, only the bean teepee is left as we have to buy some poles for it
* planting one thing in the herb garden (I can’t figure out exactly what I want to do so have really delayed working on it. ack)
* mulched the garden paths (had 3 cubic yards of bark mulch delivered. Cool! Next year when I can’t remember how much we bought, maybe I’ll remember to look in here. I wonder if I wrote about it last year. Never thought of check. Silly me–that’s a good part of why I write this: So I can look back and see what I’ve done or read in the past. Not much good if I don’t even remember to look!)
* picked up pinecones
* removed a tree from a bush (I think that’s the last one in the yard!)
* weeded under the tree and lilac bush so we could mulch there (and we began that last night, too)
* moved branches out of the way of the garage painters (although where I put them meants they could reach one little corner that should have been painted. I’ll have to do it some other year as I’m not moving them a third time!)
* installed my garden sprinkler
* Freecycled the basketball hoop (okay, not really garden related, but it is currently in the way in the backyard so kind of counts)
Most evenings, I’ve worked a little bit after work then again after dinner. It’s been beautiful weather except last night before dinner when it was hot and humid: over 80!!! In May? But it’s cooled back off today; only supposed to be in the 60s through the weekend. No rain till Monday however.
This weekend, we hope to do more mulching, mow + mulch the beds (IF the mower gets fixed :( ), install the bean teepee, plant herbs, and work on a new flower bed. That’s Eric’s idea. We have a funny area outside the kitchen/pantry/back entry. It currently has white landscaping rocks, a few pieces of slate, and a lot of weeds. We’ve NEVER liked it and have always talked about clearing out the rocks and seeding it. But each year, we never got around to it. I love his idea for flowers instead! For this year, we’ll just put up chicken wire around it and mulch it. That will give us a year to see if the dogs will stay out of it!