On Sunday morning I was out there at 6AM and started weeding the onions and deadheading the calendula. I had to prune the quince back enough so I could work.
The rhubarb has been hard hit by the constant rain and I took a lot of rotten and bug eaten leaves out.
Last I mulched the northerly garlic area and I was finished! The Big garden was done for the first time since it was planted!
Oddly enough, with being tied up as they are, the comfrey plants are doing very well. They are still flowering.
The Jerusalem artichoke behind the quince is doing well, having survived the woodchuck attack. It has buds and will be flowering soon.
Elsewhere in the garden, the marigolds are doing pretty well this year.
These volunteer nasturtiums have hung in there. They aren’t as big or prolific as past years, but they are doing ok.
I finished the Big garden in about 1½ hours and cleaned up and set up to do a flowerbed as a reward. I had thought I’d do the New East garden, but it’s so bad, I didn’t want to. It should have been done as I have a lot of things to plant in it.
The New South garden has been left alone longer, but was not as bad, so I decided to tackle it.
The east end had a huge mat of what I call ‘nut grass’ because the ends of the roots have what looks like a little nut or bulb.
The rest of the bed had crabgrass starting to move in. I could not see the edge of the bed the grass was so thick. I had to re-dig the trench for the edging that never got put in, but couldn’t see the string to follow.
I pulled enough grass so I could find the string, and then dug the new trench. Once that was done I started digging out the ‘nutgrass’. That lasted about 2’ and I decided to leave for when I could make a fresh start. I just started pulling grass clumps out.
When I reached the hollyhocks, I realized the leaves were all rusty and ended up taking them all off. By then it was 9:30 and I was getting pretty tired. I picked up the mess I’d made and set up the sleds to haul the remaining bales of mulch hay to the Small garden to store there. The guys would do that.
My son and a friend were going to move the remaining firewood at 10AM. I’d just gotten into the house when the firewood guy arrived wanting to know if I wanted another load. I told him that once the guys had it moved, he could bring one and put it in exactly the same place.
I left at noontime to go on the milk run with my friend and had a great ride up and then back to her house. When I got home there was a new load of 2 cords of wood by the shed. So it was a productive day.
The guys said they would work on it during the week. On Sunday I have a new person coming as a cleaning woman to do the pantry. I will work with her. We’ll see how she works out. It’s supposed to rain all day, so good for an inside job like that.
Good morning. It’s been a rainy summer so far. The slugs are all over the veggies and flowers, so that’s our first chore, clipping them. So gross. But surprisingly most of our crops are doing well.
Crab grass can be so hard to dig out, good luck with reclaiming the beds.
Don’t over farm, as we say to each other, knowing what that means at the end of the day. Get out the Aleve🤞👩🌾
Enjoy!
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