Weekend at the Farm January 18-19, 2014

 Winter in Burton.  Everything has gone dormant.  Only the bulbs and the Ox Eye Daisies are green.  In the photo above can be seen the flowerbed that I extended this weekend.  It sits on an upward slope, so I partially buried the cedar posts.  That meant that the bed was half full of soil before I even started filling it, it was a pretty quick job.

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Friday night my husband and I went to dinner at Etoile.  Saturday morning we went to Rice University for the annual fruit tree sale sponsored by Urban Harvest.  He couldn't believe that there were thousands of people there to buy fruit trees, standing in a line that wrapped around the stadium waiting to get in before the sale opened.  Crazy plant people.

• I bought a 3-in-1 apple tree.  That is 3 different apple varieties grafted on to the same tree.  Anna, Dorsett Golden, and Einshemer.  And I bought a Pakistan Mulberry.  The apple was bare root, the Mulberry was potted.
• Headed to Burton to plant the trees, have to get bare root trees in the ground right away.
• Worked in the Orchard after I planted the trees.  Watered the Crab Apple and the citrus trees.   Weeded around the fruit trees.  Cleaned up dead plant material.
• Extended a flowerbed near the front porch.  I'm planning to lay crushed granite down on all the paths in the Star Garden before the next Crawfish Boil.
• Sprayed herbicide in the Rose Garden, the Infinity Garden, and the Orchard.  It's a little too cool for herbicide to be really effective, but the cool weather weeds were taking over.  I needed to knock them back a bit.
• Spent about 3 hours raking leaves and putting them through the shredder.  Added to my mulch pile 
• Cleaned the house - vacuumed, swept, shook out rugs, dusted, cleaned toilets.