Arrived Friday evening, left Sunday midday. Hot. Texas in July.
- It's that time of year when most plants are struggling.
- I spend most of my time watering in the places where I don't have automatic sprinklers installed.
- Watered in the Rose Garden in the morning.
- I loaded three loads of mulch into the cadet and spread it across the Daffodil Border.
- Weeded in the Star Garden.
- I spent some time in the Vegetable garden deadheading zinnias and pulling up the last three tomato plants. I pulled all the bird netting off the goat wire arbor as well. I spread zinnia seed in the beds. And I cut back some Mexican Sunflowers that were getting really unruly.
- Deadheaded my Giant Rudbeckia in the Star Garden and took a bunch of seed heads down to the Orchard. I have an area in one bed that is kind of like a dead zone - nothing much grows there. I spread the seed throughout the area. First I roughed up the soil, then I tamped it down after I spread the seed. The seed heads made a lot of seed - hundreds. Hopefully come next spring I will have lots of seedlings. Giant Rudbeckia is a perennial, so I'm hoping this solves my dead zone problem permanently.
- Watered in the Star Garden.
- Sunday. Continued watering in the Rose Garden and the Star Garden.
- I lost a couple more roses. Lady Hillingdon is gone and Soncy is gone. Maybe Julia Childs too, I will know for sure next weekend.
- I spent some time weeding in the Star Garden. I filled the wheelbarrow several times with weeds and plants that were leaning into the paths.
- Sprayed herbicide - a little in the Shade Garden and driveway, the Rose Garden and here and there in the Star Garden.
- We left about noon to go home, get cleaned up and go to Mom and Dad's house.
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