I drove up early Friday morning and worked from the house. Bert came up after his golf game.
- Throughout the day I pulled weeds.
- I cut to the ground all the Spiderwort in the front beds and threw it in the Meadow since it is native.
- Picked eggplants and tomatoes from the Vegetable Garden.
- I pulled out all my spent Sweet Peas from the buckets in the Vegetable Garden.
- Watered my roses in buckets in the Rose Garden.
- I sprayed herbicide on wooly croton and camphor weed in the Meadow.
- Sprayed herbicide in the Star Garden on a few spots that I missed last weekend. The purslane is rampant in one spot.
- After work I went out and worked in the Rose Garden. I pulled up spent wildflowers, deadheaded Ox Eyes, pulled weeds, did some spot watering, and trimmed plants away from paths. I transplanted a few gomphrena growing in the paths over to other places in the Rose Garden.
- Saturday. Outside by 6:30 and working.
- I tried to stay on task cleaning up the Star Garden. We have Airbnb guests coming next weekend, so I wanted to get the paths cleared of plants leaning in. I cut down wild petunia. Pulled weeds. I cut down to the ground lots of salvia so we can get a second flush in the summer (and to let other plants get to the sun and bloom). I transplanted a few gomphrena from the Rose Garden paths into a few places in the Star Garden. Deadheaded Ox Eyes. Cut away sassafras drooping low to the ground. Trimmed my white mistflower away from paths.
- The sky got extremely dark and it rained hard for about 10 minutes. Only 10 minutes unfortunately. We need rain around here. It's getting droughty.
- Watered the pots in the Star Garden.
- Raked up debris in the places where I was working.
- Worked in the Rose Garden some more. I cut back a lot more salvia and deadheaded more Ox Eyes. Pulled weeds. I really cleared it out.
- I worked until noon and retreated inside for the hot part of the day.
- About 6:00 I went back outside and continued working until 7:30. Culling, weeding, cutting away from paths.
- Sunday. Outside by 6:30 and working. I've been getting up at 5:00 and having my coffee, then outside by 6:30. That works really well for me in the hot summer.
- I spent some time in the Water Garden pulling up crabgrass. I was outside of the garden reaching my hand through the goat wire fence because all the crabgrass was growing next to the fence. I cleaned up morning glory and cypress vine that was creeping across my plants. Deadheaded white salvia. Cut back white trailing lantana - I'm not quite ready for that to take over and it was crowding my white pentas. Spot watered. Pruned the white climbing rose (blanking on its name right now). Deadheaded Ox Eyes. Pulled the Louisiana iris out of the fountain, I'm going to let it dry out for a couple of days. Cut away Mexican Buckeye branches that were growing too low.
- Raked in the Greenhouse Gardens.
- Sprayed herbicide in the Shade Garden paths. Cut away ferns and snakeroot that were leaning into paths. Cut down elephant ears, Sweetspire and Chinese Bloodroot that were spreading into paths. Raked a bit.
- Raked a bit in the Rose Garden, sprayed a little herbicide. Pulled weeds.
- Planted 2 amaryllis with the others in the shady part of the Star Garden that I brought from Houston.
- Cut away tomato branches that were leaning into paths. We won't get anymore tomatoes, too hot - the fruit won't set.
- I prepped beds in the Vegetable Garden and sowed the rest of my buckwheat seeds for green manure. It is growing in most of the Vegetable Garden now.
- Dumped several truckloads of debris in erosion spots.
- I cleaned out some peppervine in the Circle Drive.
- Headed home to Houston about 2:00.
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