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Day 142 - Garden Update 2
May. 22nd, 2010 12:04 pmHuzzah! The side under the living room window is 95% complete! I need to think of something to go in the hanging baskets there and water everything. My climbing rose has A BILLION BUDS! Amazing! Some have started to open on the lower half and it looks really great. I took a picture with my phone but I don't think it'll come out very well. It was a bit shady at the time that I took it. Maybe I'll invest in one of those disposable cameras. I also have to figure out how to prune the regular rose bush and do something with the poor peony which should look spectacular when the flowers open. It's got lots of buds as well.
The side under the bedroom window is about 90% complete. There's one corner that still needs weeding out. I gave in and dug up the black eyed susan and the hyacinths there just to get the dandelions out. It was going to be too fiddly to try to get them out without disturbing the rest of the stuff. *has a moment of silence* Not sure what I'll put to fill in that spot. I was thinking to group a bunch of different bulbs there to come up next year. I'll have to think about it. There's also a row of edging stones there from when I moved in. I'm thinking I will put another layer on top of the first since the original stones have pretty much sunk into the ground over time.
As for the big patch across from the living room window, I made great headway today. One of the other ladies in the co-op, left her hoe type thing. Its fantastic! It digs through the top layer of the soil so anything shallow rooted gets dug up and it clears away the brush as you're digging so now I can see where the big roots are and go get them out with the weed puller. Between the two of them, I got about half the big patched cleared away. And then I ran out of bags. Which was okay. After three hours I was done in anyway. I have to say the right tools make all the difference. Oh! Almost forgot. My right side neighbour got me a weed bag so I hardly had to bend at all today. Yay!
EDIT: Hm. It came out a lot better than I thought it would. Will attempt to take a better one tomorrow.
The side under the bedroom window is about 90% complete. There's one corner that still needs weeding out. I gave in and dug up the black eyed susan and the hyacinths there just to get the dandelions out. It was going to be too fiddly to try to get them out without disturbing the rest of the stuff. *has a moment of silence* Not sure what I'll put to fill in that spot. I was thinking to group a bunch of different bulbs there to come up next year. I'll have to think about it. There's also a row of edging stones there from when I moved in. I'm thinking I will put another layer on top of the first since the original stones have pretty much sunk into the ground over time.
As for the big patch across from the living room window, I made great headway today. One of the other ladies in the co-op, left her hoe type thing. Its fantastic! It digs through the top layer of the soil so anything shallow rooted gets dug up and it clears away the brush as you're digging so now I can see where the big roots are and go get them out with the weed puller. Between the two of them, I got about half the big patched cleared away. And then I ran out of bags. Which was okay. After three hours I was done in anyway. I have to say the right tools make all the difference. Oh! Almost forgot. My right side neighbour got me a weed bag so I hardly had to bend at all today. Yay!
EDIT: Hm. It came out a lot better than I thought it would. Will attempt to take a better one tomorrow.
