Took Thursday and Friday as vacation. Arrived Thursday afternoon.
- Spent some time shredding leaves on Thursday afternoon. I put some of them in the front beds where I planted the Ox Eyes last weekend. I put the rest in the compost pile.
- Thursday I raked pine straw into piles on the trail next to the Long Border.
- Friday morning I raked pine straw on the trails and piled it into the cub.
- I spent most of Friday morning cleaning out the flowerbed next to the house - pulled up Four O'Clocks that died from the cold, pulled weeds, repaired a spot where the dogs dig, and covered the area with pine straw.
- Raked leaves in the Star Garden Friday morning as well. Piled most of them around the trees that are outside of the landscaped part of the side yard. I don't like to get rid of leaves or burn them because they break down and help improved the soil. My husband likes to burn them, says they look messy. Yes, they can look messy, but that's why I moved out to the middle of nowhere with no neighbors! I can do what makes sense in my yard, not what looks right in my yard.
- Cleaned out the bed where the Pink Vitex is growing and mulched with pine straw.
- Vacuumed the whole house.
- Weeded, weeded, weeded.
- There are seedlings everywhere, spring should be beautiful.
- Friday evening I turned over the soil in the lower section of the back flowerbed and surrounded the perennials with leaf mulch. I will seed that bed with some of the remaining wildflower seeds I have.
- Went to JW's for dinner.
- Saturday morning up early. Spread seed in the back bed.
- Raked and shredded leaves for a long while. Turned off the machine to eat lunch and couldn't get it started again. Boo.
- Started creating another path in Max's Garden.
- It was a warm day so I decided to spray herbicide, you never know how many more warm days we will have and herbicide doesn't work in cold weather. Sprayed in the Rose Garden, the Orchard, the Star Garden, and the driveway.
- I spent some time making paths in Max's Garden. All the soil I shoveled out of the paths, I moved to some flowerbeds that my husband lined with cedar last summer.
- Raked in the Vegetable Garden for a while Saturday evening.
- Sunday morning I shredded leaves. I quit when it shut off due to a stick that got wedged in between the blade and the side of the machine. I might pick it up later. I got three, maybe four, truckloads dumped into the compost pile before I quit.
- My husband made another flowerbed space for me with cedar logs because I am working on breaking up a huge flowerbed in Max's Garden, and I need some place to put the soil. As I create paths in this raised flowerbed I end up with a lot of good soil.
- Dug dirt for a long time. Dumped it in the beds I'm building. Hard work. Made several new paths and transplanted several Autumn Sage and a Pink Muhly that were in the way.
- Fertilized the plants in the Vegetable Garden - celery, onions, garlic, broccoli, mustard, arugula, calendulas.
- Worked in the Vegetable Garden for a long time. I moved all the tomato cages and stakes so I could rake behind them. I cut back all the asparagus, spread fertilizer, and covered the beds with leaf mulch. I had a lot of weeding to do in the big asparagus bed. I really let that get away from me this summer. I moved a half dozen Goldsturm Rudbeckia that had sprung up uninvited in the asparagus bed and moved them to the front flower bed. Also fertilized the garlic and onions and mulched them. I moved some Purple Phacelia that sprang up on its own in the Vegetable Garden last spring. It was such a pretty plant, very low-growing (sprawling) pretty leaves, and very pretty little purple and white flowers that I didn't pull it up, I let it go to seed. When autumn got here it was popping up everywhere! So I dug a bunch of clumps up and moved them to various places in the Star Garden. Hopefully they will survive their rough treatment - I find wild flowers do not tend to transplant well.
- Watered all the Ox Eyes I moved last weekend.
- Whew! I earned my keep this trip! Sunday evening - I'm beat.
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