tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37581902435421350032024-03-12T22:44:49.795-04:00Potato Queen and Mulch Boypqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.comBlogger216125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-11613095578898515362020-04-10T08:59:00.000-04:002020-04-10T09:02:23.650-04:00Garden Journal: And moreThen on March 28, we finished up the edging! (Click on pics to embiggen.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am amazed at how quickly we got this done.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It only took two days!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was all that I could wish.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AND we still have rocks and sifted gravel left over!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In case you were wondering about<br />
how we did the sifting.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Everyone earned their rest that day.</td></tr>
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<br />pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-84022231907170689722020-04-09T16:43:00.002-04:002020-04-10T09:02:03.304-04:00Garden Journal: New Beds, New Borders, New Anti-Pup FenceSo in my last post, I posted "before" pictures of, well, everything, along with goals for different areas of the yahd and gahden. And behold, we've actually got a LOT done already! Because my brain is weak from all this social distancing and covid-19 stress, I'll let the pictures do the talking. (Click on pics to embiggen.)<br />
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March 8</h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We did the reconfiguration of the raised beds! Bed 4 on the right<br />
is no more, and beds 2 and 3 skooched over to make wider paths,<br />
now paved with pretty rocks.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Same beds, different angle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now here is the area for the NEW bed (Bed 4 v.2).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our contractor AHAHAHAHAHA!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bed 4 v.1, before the update.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garden helpers worked hard.</td></tr>
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March 14</h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Did you notice the new dog fence? No dogs allowed!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daisy, feeling snubbed by the new fence.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">But wait, there's more! We got going on the re-do of the<br />
flower bed edging, starting with The Worst Corner.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who's looking fancy now? We literally dug out<br />
the old edging trenches, which were gravel on<br />
dirt, sifted the gravel out of the dirt, lined the<br />
trenches with landscape fabric, refilled them<br />
almost all the way with the sifted gravel, then<br />
top-dressed with the purty stone. <br />
Why yes, it WAS tedious.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view. OH, also, the dirt we sifted out of<br />
the gravel? Dark and rich and wormy, and went<br />
immediately to fill Bed 4 v.2.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waiting its turn.</td></tr>
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pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-15096968132763216692020-02-25T10:53:00.000-05:002020-02-25T12:37:30.211-05:00Garden Journal, 2020: BEFORESince I traditionally forget to take pictures before I start any garden project, I decided to take one giant "before" photo shoot of the entire yard and garden right now.<br />
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And so, in all its neglected, messy glory, The Little Blue Murder House, BEFORE. (Click on pics to embiggen.)<br />
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Backyard</h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the back porch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patio bed. Montauk daisies budding but now cut down.<br />
GOAL: Hide that dang drain pipe.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Divided highway to veg garden.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The current veg garden.<br />
GOAL: Remove right-most bed and space out the remaining beds.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Next to veg garden.<br />
GOAL: Create two new raised beds and further raise the herb bed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Same area looking back towards porch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New bed! Well, old empty weedy bed cleared of giant rock border<br />
and covered with tarp for almost a year to kill weeds.<br />
GOAL: Create stone-filled trench border and plant... something.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The final frontier.<br />
GOAL: Dig up all the buried slabs, bricks, and stones.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moving to the other side of the backyard.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garage bed and corner bed.<br />
GOAL: Redo the gravel-filled borders by digging deeper,<br />
lining with landscape fabric, and refilling with river stone.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This corner never looks impressive.<br />
GOAL: Change that.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The garage bed really came into its own last year, but the border<br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: left;">still needs some work. A late discovery last summer was the <br />presence </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">of a buried brick walkway and bed border here.</span><br />
GOAL: Uncover and remove bricks, redefine bed border.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking back to compost heap and last year's new beds.<br />
GOAL: Redo the gravel-filled borders by digging deeper,<br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">lining with landscape fabric, and refilling with river stone.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of new bed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another, with beagle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turning the corner, with beagle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking back towards the house.</td></tr>
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Front Yard</h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stepping out the front door: Berryland. All the<br />
strawberries and blueberries are now here, along<br />
with the wild blackberries a garden club pal gifted.<br />
There are also perennials, a single heather, and OH <br />
YEAH new this year there will be tulips!<br />
GOAL: Just keep weeded.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Side bed. I think there are new tulips here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Side bed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Side bed from the street. No new goals for this bed this year.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Same thing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking from driveway to front lawn.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Berryland bed from the street, with Lester.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little Blue House!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little stone wall, one of last year's projects.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front bed by driveway. My boxwoods are growing faster than I<br />
expected (for boxwoods).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moving along.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can just see the border here under the leaves.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new stone walls.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The other front bed, with fewer leaves. This new border still looks<br />
awesome; it's what I want now in my backyard beds.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not only did this bed get the new border, it also got expanded<br />
outward, creating new flower real estate. Have the poor little<br />
perennials I planted late last year survived?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Also, the bed expansion included coming 'round this corner...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and expanding the bed all the way 'round to<br />
join up with Rhodey...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and go all the way to the fence.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another weed-killing operation. The stone border goes all the<br />
way to the fence.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiIChTkH1CVs9ybkB3udMYBQLs98UoerBuciqgyLQ5GCCSQuO0UjzTO6OXASqMdjEnvGuUXiegvlcKWNSxyhmvpZszOUSgEuYjXMnqLjVcEqFyaOBce8nOsp8HpkwAJAngL_aYvzI-uyA/s1600/IMG_7512.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiIChTkH1CVs9ybkB3udMYBQLs98UoerBuciqgyLQ5GCCSQuO0UjzTO6OXASqMdjEnvGuUXiegvlcKWNSxyhmvpZszOUSgEuYjXMnqLjVcEqFyaOBce8nOsp8HpkwAJAngL_aYvzI-uyA/s320/IMG_7512.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Street corner bed, from the yard.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another angle facing the main street.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another angle from our street.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwmmrGxoTSg6EEInjoaPi4cUz7plIiz8Ue9XHTG6J7IwAm87BQ5wColoWkrYsVHTxTmWnLIBDlBLMUrXMWw4CIsBizgPYJtWth9qdOYy6pzXDG5Vaen__f0htPt0NV5jg2amJZVQ9ZmTE/s1600/IMG_7515.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwmmrGxoTSg6EEInjoaPi4cUz7plIiz8Ue9XHTG6J7IwAm87BQ5wColoWkrYsVHTxTmWnLIBDlBLMUrXMWw4CIsBizgPYJtWth9qdOYy6pzXDG5Vaen__f0htPt0NV5jg2amJZVQ9ZmTE/s320/IMG_7515.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Why, it's alive! The succulents are alive!</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwqp028aiW3GBBAeQWN56co30-Jec8iFsRmYZSb1Lel6J3iOb2UdDXz5Cl94UHrwNFaRg90EUEx6wmuaskwvIVt979Sqgt4284gLCkbbxQUeywhit3fZbYb6jaTv_Xd8YhrCyz63UKZ0c/s1600/IMG_7516.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwqp028aiW3GBBAeQWN56co30-Jec8iFsRmYZSb1Lel6J3iOb2UdDXz5Cl94UHrwNFaRg90EUEx6wmuaskwvIVt979Sqgt4284gLCkbbxQUeywhit3fZbYb6jaTv_Xd8YhrCyz63UKZ0c/s320/IMG_7516.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More life.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33yOOadMKe-OKS3s-ksPozwSXXQ4dmhJU6iIOXlIIMn8cbWmjVxK2ncitccKS-SYSkbvf9PWat_q_7RSWcdrdpDTXAN87K-xM4YZl-6iHwvpKiAUWskRsFx5SKToJrAr3ZtrGBVtEpdY/s1600/IMG_7517.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33yOOadMKe-OKS3s-ksPozwSXXQ4dmhJU6iIOXlIIMn8cbWmjVxK2ncitccKS-SYSkbvf9PWat_q_7RSWcdrdpDTXAN87K-xM4YZl-6iHwvpKiAUWskRsFx5SKToJrAr3ZtrGBVtEpdY/s320/IMG_7517.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The daisies are green, too!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mulch Boy's beautiful stone wall and our<br />
miserably ugly sidewalk.<br />
GOAL: Clean up that sidewalk and find a way<br />
to keep it from falling into this mess.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This wall, though.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking back at the house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our mess in the street.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Street corner bed, lower level. I forgot I added the brick border.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tulips?????</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes, tulips!!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My single surviving poppy, come to life again!</td></tr>
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<br />pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-77085251313322264022020-02-24T18:47:00.001-05:002020-02-24T18:48:36.209-05:00Garden Journal: The 2020 Gardening Season -- Our Earliest Start in New England!Yesterday--Sunday, February 23--was unseasonably and freakishly warm for Peabody, Massachusetts, with high temps in the mid 50s. And so Mulch Boy and I found ourselves drawn outside to begin some spring cleaning in the backyard. Although we are most certainly doomed to several more months of winter, we managed to get a good bit done AND begin developing the first cunning garden scheme of 2020.<br />
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What we did</h3>
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<li>Raked backyard leaves.</li>
<li>Cut down dead perennials.</li>
<li>Cleaned out the raised vegetable garden beds and the herb bed.</li>
<li>Emptied the soil from one raised bed to another in preparation for The Cunning Scheme.</li>
<li>Reset the fencing around the herb and vegetable gardens, as DOGS have recently found their way past the barriers. And then found themselves trapped.</li>
<li>Stirred and reorganized the compost heap.</li>
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What we noticed</h3>
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<li>The Montauk daisies were all leafing out. Are you kidding me, Montauk daisies?</li>
<li>Old dried lemongrass smells amazing!</li>
<li>Oregano lives even in winter.</li>
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The most notable thing was all the big improvements we made last year. I had forgotten just how much work we did in 2019, from creating and edging beds, digging up boulders and building stone walls, and so on and so forth. Everything's a bit messy right now, naturally, but we really improved the bone structure of the entire yard, front and back. I just read back through last year's posts and was surprised and delighted to remember all the things we did. And it inspired us to begin detailed planning of the first Cunning Scheme of 2020.</div>
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Two years ago, Mulch Boy built me raised vegetable beds. They are wonderful, and we were finally able to grow vegetables successfully up here in New England. However, they have some problems, and these are of my own making. </div>
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I enjoy planning and building things, but I am not what you would call talented or successful at it, in spite of my often very elaborate and detailed planning. The vegetable garden is an excellent case in point. I measured the area, I planned the size of each bed and the required size of the lumber, I calculated the space needed to walk between the beds. I drew diagrams. We bought the lumber and had it cut according to my specifications. We brought it home and assembled the beds using some nifty corner thingies I bought off the Internet. </div>
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And in the end we had four lovely big beds... and barely room to walk between them. Because I had failed to factor in the thickness of the boards (1.5 inches) and the corner brackets (2 inches) when calculating the beds' width. As a result, our garden aisles were 11.5 inches and 8 inches. It's okay, you can laugh.</div>
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After two years of carefully traversing these treacherous little paths, last fall we decided we needed to do something about it. And so I started drawing new diagrams in which I reconfigured the existing beds to make them more walkable.</div>
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And then we forgot all about it.</div>
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Until this past weekend! Out came the tape measure, again. I have now measured every dimension in this portion of the yard--distances from the house to the edge of the porch, from the porch to the cellar doors, from the cellar doors to the backdoor stair. I've measured the existing beds, each piece of lumber, the current paths, the space between the front of the beds and the current fencing, and the distance from the current fencing to the edge of the porch. Look, I did a lot of measuring!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is just one of four diagrams.</td></tr>
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Anyway, there is a plan:<br />
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<li>To remove the bed closest to the porch and space out the remaining three beds more humanely.</li>
<li>To use the lumber from the removed bed to create a different bed (square this time) in front of the cellar doors.</li>
<li>To use more of our found bricks to build a fourth bed in front of the herb bed.</li>
<li>To enclose the entire area with a gated dog fence in order to keep dogs out and allow easy access for the humans.</li>
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Mulch has (mostly) emptied the bed that's to move, and the dog fence is ordered.<br />
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And now we wait for the next unseasonably nice day.<br />
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pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-7612881066344490252019-06-07T09:05:00.000-04:002019-06-07T09:05:22.119-04:00Remembering Francis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
It is with profound regret that I close a chapter in the garden: namely Francis watch.</div>
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Francis was a liatris. My good friend bought him last year, hoping to watch him grow and thrive in a pot on her apartment's patio. When he seemed unable to make the adjustment, she asked me to transplant him in our yard, to hopefully ensure his survival.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Francis after transplanting, already standing straighter.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I put him in the street bed, next to the daisies and the<br />transplanted catmint.</td></tr>
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While he never did stand straight and tall, Francis did bloom once before going to sleep for the winter. This spring, I've been keeping Francis watch, waiting hopefully for him to spring back to life. Alas.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nope.</td></tr>
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I decided it was time to let go of unrealistic hope and move on. And so yesterday, I planted the Francis Liatris Memorial Garden: ten liatris tubers from Brent and Becky's Bulbs. Their names are Francis Jr., Francis III, Franklin, Frank, Frankie, Francisco, Francesco, Francine, Frannie, and Betty.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charlie and Rosie exchanging views on landscape design.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How time flies! It was almost
exactly six (!) years ago when the good folks at GardenRant allowed me to share my Guest
Rant “<a href="https://www.gardenrant.com/2013/06/no-bad-yards.html">No Bad Yards</a>.”
Now I’m back again in defense of all the inexperienced or unlucky gardening
greenhorns out there who suffer the sneers of their gardening betters -- whether
professional or amateur -- if they dare to ask for advice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">First of all, let me say to
you, the educated, the professional, the successful: I get it. You spent years
of school and/or professional work becoming the expert you are, and people
literally pay you to impart your knowledge to them. I see the injustice of strangers
asking you to “give it away for free,” and certainly the nuisance factor this
must involve. As a recent column on GardenRant pointed out, you wouldn’t expect a
dermatologist or a stock broker or a lawyer to just shell out free advice in
the grocery checkout line. Why would you expect free service from a landscape
designer or a horticultural specialist? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">OR maybe you are not a
professional, but a highly skilled home gardener, a member in long standing of
your local garden club, a prize-winning grower of roses, with a beautifully
landscaped yard that is the culmination of years of your hard labor. When your
neighbor, whose biggest horticultural success is a window box of marigolds,
asks you how he can make his garden beautiful like yours, you grit your teeth
in what you hope is a tolerant smile and airily respond with “Oh, it’s nothing!”
Or perhaps you go into a lecture on design concepts and lifestyle needs and
“the right plants,” all the while screaming internally, “How the hell do you
think? You think this comes easy? I learned and I WORKED!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To you all, I say: I
understand. I honor your expertise and your pride in your accomplishments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But let me advocate for a
little understanding -- and patience -- for those of us who lack your gifts and
skills.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why do we in the gardening
bush league (ha!) have the chutzpah to ask you for free advice? I suspect it’s
because, in our community, free advice is the norm. Whether it’s our neighbors,
our parents, our friends, or even our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/NorthshoreGardenClub/" target="_blank">Facebook friends</a>, part of the joy we gain
from gardening is the sharing—of wisdom, of solutions, of rabbit deterrents, even
of plants. I think it’s not surprising that, when we encounter an actual expert
in the wild, we are likely to naturally treat you as part of our community and bubble
over with questions, delighted that we have met someone who KNOWS! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I understand this doesn’t
describe everyone. There are, I am sure, plenty of folks out there who want you
to stop whatever you’re doing and give them a simple 1-2-3 solution to
transforming their vacant lot into Kew Gardens, and won’t take no for an
answer. That kind of entitlement doesn’t deserve your attention, and I can
understand responding joyfully with a snarky response that puts them in their place.
As a regular ranter rightfully pointed out, landscape design is much more
complex that most people imagine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But most of us are
not asking for help in defining outdoor spaces to meet our lifestyle needs. We
don’t have “design intentions.” No, we just want to know what kind of shrub
might look good framing our front door. We don’t need or want a sermon on how
foundation planting is passé or based on outdated needs. We just want a
shrubbery that looks nice. And is not too expensive. (Apologies to Monty
Python.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is why I can’t help but rail when I read
columns recounting how the authors have chided and derided us bush leaguers,
usually under the guise of humor. I’ve been called oversensitive and judgmental
for my reactions, but my goal is not to judge but to enlighten. I accept the
explanation that these humor columns are not <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i>intended</i></b> to be mean-spirited. And as a professional editor, I will
always support the authors’ right to write them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But I would merely ask the authors to think carefully
of the intent of their written pieces, and consider the consequences --
intentional or not – of publicly mocking those who dare to lack your expertise,
whether in writing or in public. Do you think you encourage new gardeners with
your eye-rolling, or do you demoralize them by laughing at their ignorance and
inexperience? Are novices more or less likely to seek out information or
assistance when the gatekeepers of gardening wisdom seem to hold them in
contempt? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If I were a younger, newer gardener myself, some
of these columns would make me consider giving up entirely and leaving the
garden to the professionals. Luckily, I’ve had my real-life mentors to
encourage me all along, and so for almost 20 years, gardening has been my
hobby, my therapy, my joy. I’ve never had professional landscape advice. To a
pro’s eye, I have no idea if my yard is a specimen or an eyesore. But to me,
it’s my little paradise -- ant hills, quack grass, and all. My neighbor’s yard, front and back, is beautifully,
professional designed, landscaped, and maintained—but I honestly would not
trade their showcase for my uneven, weedy, irregular, constantly-under-revision
yard. And I notice that they seem to be out enjoying their space much less
frequently that we do ours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In conclusion, can’t we all
just be nice to each other? Certainly, you are not obligated to play mentor to
anyone who approaches you, no matter how politely. Still, is it any harder to
respond kindly with an “I’m sorry, I can’t help you, but have you tried [the
Master Gardeners] [the local garden club] [this nice gentleman who works here
at the nursery]; they have great advice on just this subject”? Then afterwards,
you can enjoy a cocktail with a friend and laugh at the woman who can’t grow
zucchini (that would be me) to your heart’s content.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anyway, now that I’ve had MY
rant, it’s time to pick some mint, make a mojito, and ponder the great mystery
of why I remain incapable of growing zucchini.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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It was all about rocks and transplanting. First of all, I finished digging the final feet of the big new trench border in the front yard, and then Mulch Boy helped to fill it with river stone. Then I hand-weeded the bed underneath the giant rhododendron. Behold!</div>
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<br />I also laid the last of our blue tarps over the new bed area for weed-killing and new-scheme-discouragement. You may recall that I had planted some ferns there that were gifted to me, but do not fear: they were removed for relocation to a better home before the tarp came down.</div>
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The rest of the day for me was all about transplanting. When we moved into this house, there were several random plants in the front beds, including some oddly placed hostas that have survived but not exactly thrived in the full sun the front beds get. I finally decided to rehome these hardy survivors.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These four wee fellows were moved to the driveway bed to<br />fill in this space by the little rock path.</td></tr>
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From here, the transplant mission moved to the backyard. Looking back through this blog, I find to my surprise that I have taken almost no pictures of this back corner of the yard with the giant, majestic pine tree that, for me, was one of the selling points of the yard. The dogs have worn a path to and from this tree (or more accurately to the fence that is adjacent to the sidewalk where intruders insolently walk past our house EVERY DAY). </div>
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It's beautiful and shady, and overrun with hostas and wild roses, but also (as we have learned) with a sh*tload of buried bricks, pavers, and rocks. In fact, at least some of those glorious hostas were growing literally on top of buried paver slabs.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before the hostas come in. With dogs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After the hostas come in. The pavers you see were<br />dug up by an enraged Mulch Boy when he discovered<br />they were there.</td></tr>
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Since this discovery, the excavation of this old patio? dumping ground? has gone on the to-do list. However, the presence of the full-grown hostas somewhat complicates that task. Luckily, with my giant new backyard beds forming a blank slate in the shade, I could make good on two tasks at once.</div>
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And so began the laborious task of digging up some established hostas to move to the new bed (and also uncover some of the buried pavers and bricks). As usual, I forgot to take "before" pictures. And I do wish I had timed how long it took to dig up these eight hostas because I am certain it was the better part of an hour. </div>
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The little ones were no problem. But there were two large ones I particularly wanted to move because they were literally growing on a paver. This paver.</div>
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It took the combined tools of the garden fork, Rod, my favorite hand trowel, and my own little gloved claws to finally tear these stubborn giants off this stupid piece of whatever it is and out of the ground.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See this big empty space with a dumb paver? That was all hostas.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Feeling naked, dumb paver? TOO BAD.</td></tr>
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So, the wrenching-from-the-earth part of the project completed, I took my wheelbarrow full of hostas over to the new bed to introduce them to their new homes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First transplant here: the tiniest hosta, under the birdbath.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The challenge in this bed now is identifying the path the dogs are choosing<br />to make through it, and avoid planting anything in that path.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This little feller is one of last year's coneflowers. I couldn't figure out why he<br />wasn't growing like the rest of them until I watch the pack casually all march<br />on top of him on their way to the back corner of the yard. That's when he got<br />relocated in front of the bird bath and protected by Oliver Grendel Holmes here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BTW, the mojito garden is doing well.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Long view of the big bed, now with plants!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First of all the biggest hosta and one of the ferns I mentioned early.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moving down the bed, the next biggest hosta and another fern.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In this corner, that second fern on the right, three small hostas, and the final fern.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of the same corner.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally, last two hostas added in this corner where I'd transplanted a few plus<br />a wild rose when I created the new bed.</td></tr>
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In case you were wondering, that's cayenne chili powder on all the hostas. I've been told it discourages the bunnies from eating them, and I hope it's true.</div>
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Meanwhile, Mulch Boy continued his excavation into the lost city of Rocklantis in the front. By Sunday, he had now cleared this entire area up to where brick paving kicks in, and here is the harvest.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This whole area cleared.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My boot for scale.</td></tr>
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I am sure the Rocklanteans had a plan with all this, but it's beyond our comprehension. But hey, FREE ROCKS!<br />
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While Mulch finished his excavation on Sunday, I decided to go low-impact and just weed this bed. MAN, everything looks so much better after it's been weeded! Also, I'm so excited to see the perennials I've added the last two years thriving and beginning to grow up.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Geranium, astilbe, barrenwort, heuchera, and the new hostas. <br />Oh, and that <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">catmint transplant from last year.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The giant catmint, those... things that I don't remember what they are because<br />I didn't plant them, and my new baby hostas.</td></tr>
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And that was what we did this weekend! Now, just some progress pics to see who's blooming, who's living, who's thriving, and who's dying.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Strawberries: thriving!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">False indigo: thriving!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Other peonies: thriving!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dappled willow: I fear I have an addition to the "Dearly Departed" list.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rugosas: revived since I took my neighbor's advice and cut<br />them down to nothing this spring. Also, that pink thing I<br />bought last year--well done, pink thing!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pincushion flowers: thriving!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New bed and border: lookin' good!</td></tr>
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<br />pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-52389510597856004232019-06-01T20:28:00.000-04:002019-06-01T20:28:07.026-04:00ArcheologyEvery home I've owned, the yard has provided a rich archeological adventure. I've discovered Barbies, ancient pull tabs from beer cans, keys, toy cars, and a disco frog.<br />
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The Little Blue Murder House is no exception, but nearly all our archeological finds have been bricks and rocks. We have found numerous buried brickwork in the front and the back yards.<br />
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The largest excavation so far has been the corner of the front yard by the street. This is where I discovered and uncovered a strange area of brick and pavers, about 6 ft x 6 ft, built by some former resident and apparently progressively buried under unraked leaves-turned-to-compost, or purposely covered with a couple inches of soil.<br />
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The year after I uncovered it, I decided to dig up all the pavers and bricks and turn the area into a bed. And now we have this:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The left side is the former buried paved area. The right side was originally bordered<br />in the front with those rocks, and we built the bed and added the border in the lawn.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last year after planting: catmint, Francis the liatris, and daisies.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This spring before stuff started coming up and I added a bunch of sedums.</td></tr>
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The back yard has its share of buried brickwork under the lawn, and we expect to be uncovering it for years to come. It seems that a good deal of the back yard was paved and graveled back in the day. Not what we would choose, but at least it makes some kind of sense if you just love patios.<br />
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Unlike the rocks. As we've undertaken this year's yard projects, we've doing a lot of digging, as always. As I've been reconfiguring my beds, I've dug up the rocks that formed the old borders and repurposed them in walls and as additions to the beds. But as I levered out the border stones, I often found... another layer of stones directly beneath. I do love rocks, so the more the better. But it was surprising.<br />
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Then today, Mulch Boy was nosing around the bed by the driveway, where we suspected another brick-paved area was buried under dirt. But instead he found... more rocks.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This little area of turned earth...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...gave up all this.</td></tr>
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Delighted though I am to have my rock fetish so generously indulged, I can't figure out what the idea was behind this strange little pile of river stone. So in the absence of a logical explanation, I have decided that our house is located on the site of the long-lost city of Rocklantis.<br />
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It's truly the best explanation I can think of, mostly because I am easily entertained and it makes me laugh, and now I can make up stories about the lost Rocklanteans and how they lived.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With my new theory, the buried rocks and pavers under the giant pine tree are<br />the ruins of an ancient Rocklantis palace.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">But after the fall of the city, the ruins were slowly buried as nature took its toll.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This particular stone had two gigantic hostas growing right on top of it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Also, the Rocklanteans hoarded rocks.</td></tr>
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Oh my gosh, I think that makes Muriel the Naked Lady the last Rocklantean!<br />
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So first, a quick check on the backyard. One trip to <a href="https://gibney-gardens.hub.biz/" target="_blank">Gibney's</a> later, and we've got a vegetable garden going!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bed 1: The weakest peas at top (last year's seeds), Bibb lettuce, wax<br />
bean seeds planted, a few tiny volunteer tomatoes, and one cuke.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bed 2: Peas, eggplant seedlings, one cucumber seedling <br />
under a cage, last year's leeks (left alone in case they <br />
do something interesting), one cucumber seedling,<br />
and secret green bean seeds planted as mulch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bed 3: Peas, bell pepper seedlings, two tomato seedlings<br />
in cages, and secret green bean seeds planted as mulch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bed 4: Asparagus ferning out and garlic galore.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New garden hose! The old monster that came with the<br />
house split open when I turned on the tap, so I replaced<br />
it with this new "professional grade" one that, frankly,<br />
is wonderful. The first hose I've ever owned that didn't leak...<br />
somewhere.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Muriel still enjoying her new digs, although the beagle is STILL<br />
finding his way in spite of all obstacles.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a terrible picture, just to document that the abelia I planted<br />
last year is mostly dead but SLIGHTLY STILL ALIVE.</td></tr>
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Well, YES, rocks. AGAIN. Perhaps you will recall my digging out the new border trenches for the front beds. It looked a little... like this.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">But then we got a cubic yard of river stone delivered to our driveway Monday morning. (Yes, on Memorial Day! We were surprised, too!) And now we have THIS!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Um. Still ROCKS!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Okay, this is my favorite bit because this is where I'm expanding<br />
the bed to go around the corner and beautify what I sarcastically<br />
called "the showcase" on the side of the house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Of course, first there must be killing, hence the dreaded blue tarp.</td></tr>
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It's all kind of coming together--and it's only taken four years! And while the blue tarp is not exactly an attractive addition to the landscape, it serves two purposes: killing the weeds in the area for me, and also preventing me from overextending myself by immediately starting another harebrained scheme in that particular location.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am still a rhododendron.</td></tr>
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pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-62627410798847032572019-05-20T14:39:00.000-04:002019-05-20T15:28:26.165-04:00A tale of two flower beds, told breathlessly in picturesOnce upon a time, we bought a little blue house in Massachusetts. And this is how it looked the day we took possession.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mulch Boy, Rosie, and Charlie (the pre-Daisy days).</td></tr>
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And the front beds looked like this.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few random (and soon to be hated) ornamental grass thugs,<br />
a few now-forgotten annuals, and some misplaced hostas.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Like the bed above, only on the other side of the front door.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Side of the house. A showcase.</td></tr>
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Not surprisingly, one of my first tasks was to attempt to liven up these beds, whose best features were the rocks (precious rocks!). So that fall I plopped in a few perennials (Montauk daisies, a rugosa, and some juniper) and planted 200 bulbs or so.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daisies and juniper.</td></tr>
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The next Spring, I was delighted and surprised when all the bulbs came up.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tulips! Daffies!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hyacinths! Tulips! Daffies!</td></tr>
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As the years (all three of 'em) passed, I added more perennials and shrubs. This is last year after a boatload of additions.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Poppies, dianthus, toad lilies, pincushion flowers, and some new shrubs to replace<br />
the thug grass I was finally able to dig up with Rod.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Over here, some new little shrubs, baby blueberry plants, and the triumphant<br />
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It's been a process, but somehow i've never quite had a full vision of what i wanted to do with these two beds until last year, when I started to consider the rock borders. Now I have a rock fetish; this is well known. I was thrilled when we bought the house to see so very many big rocks. Yay, rocks!<br />
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And yet, somehow, in particular with these front beds, they just didn't please me, and I couldn't figure out why. So last fall I began considering digging up the border stones and using them in some other way. This would definitely help with lawn-mowing, as a border trench is easier to mow and requires no weed-whacking. And it would free up a bunch of stones for other uses. My ideas: 1) little stone walls on either side of the front stair to keep the mulch from spilling into the pointless brick square in front of the step, and 2) stone wall on side of bed by brick walkway to prevent mulch from spilling onto crappy brick walkway.<br />
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Then Fall and Winter came, and I totally forgot all about it.<br />
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Until this May, when we finally--FINALLY!--got some Spring weather suitable for the gahden. Up until this last weekend, the focus has been almost exclusively on the backyard. My plan had been to continue that this past Saturday, with a short diversion into the front yard to mow and weed. Then one thing led to another, and first thing you know, I've spent 8 hours digging up rocks and moving rocks and building walls. Behold!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The front stair. This little brick square is about 4 inches lower than the rest of the<br />
lawn. I thought perhaps it was the beginning of a buried path to the street but no, <br />
that's all there is. Anyway, mulch used to spill into it and collect all the time but<br />
no more thanks to ROCK WALLS.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The flower bed used to slope down to the brick. But now ROCK WALL is<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And, uh, same thing on the other side. Little cool thing: the top stone on the extreme<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The long view. It's super-charming, I swear.</td></tr>
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Buoyed by the success of my little creations, I decided to turn to the larger task of building a similar wall between the bed that borders the brick walkway and the walkway itself. If the other location had spillage issues, this one had them just as worse, and had the disadvantage of being by the front door we actually use (and so being more visible). I give you: the other wall!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's at least three times bigger than the other two.</td></tr>
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And thus ended Saturday. All. Eight. Hours. As a reward, Mulch Boy grilled me delicious food, and we watched "Lonesome Dove," one of my favorite movies of all time. Then, my belly full of Ibuprofen, it was off to bed.</div>
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Sunday was very hurty. I should have just rested all day. I was going to when the weather forecast said rain all day. But then the weather changed its mind, and so I found myself spending three more hours out in the front yard, digging in new borders for the two beds where once there were rocks, and actually finishing the first one!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I really only intended to dig out a new line for the border, but you know how that goes. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Same bed, different orientation.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front view, with new rock path on right.</td></tr>
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pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-79137264005330838602019-05-13T10:13:00.000-04:002019-05-13T10:13:41.803-04:00Seven hours in the sun!Last Saturday provided something we've not yet had this spring at Murder House: a weekend day of full sun. And so I ended up spending seven hours in the yard, continuing work on the Big Backyard Bed and also starting work on The Final Frontier (the other back corner of the backyard).<br />
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My results are not as glorious as those I see in my online garden club, but they sure are transforming our backyard into a nice place to be, so I am more than satisfied.<br />
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First of all, it can be useful to recruit some energetic garden helpers.<br />
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On the other hand, I find my gardening days to be more restful and renewing if I'm working on my own. Also, more bragging rights for you!<br />
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So what did I get done Saturday? The Big Back Bed. It has no flowers yet, but it is constructed: weeded, edged, mulched, lined with gravel that we sifted out of our own dirt, and decorated with large rocks also excavated from our yard.<br />
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Now, that final frontier I was talking about. The other back corner in our L-shaped backyard. It's dominated by a gorgeous giant pine try, and very little grass survives back there between the pine needles and the dogs. And also, we've found yet another treasure trove of bricks and rocks where, no doubt, someone in the past sort of paved everything back here, and then it got buried over time by leaves and pine needles. In short, this is soon to become a major archeological dig.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mulch Boy dug up those pavers on the left in disgust before I stopped him. </td></tr>
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<br />Now this little bed is the one you see in the right foreground in the pic above. It's actually not that small, but it is overwhelmed with weeds and (though not visible in this picture) a giant, deeply rooted ornamental grass under all those pipes (this was early spring and I had cut down the old growth).<div>
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So the plan, Stage 1: since Mulch Boy already harvested most of the border rocks of that bed for his stone wall, I raked out the bed, then got Rod on the job to lift out the remaining rocks and muscle that stinkin' ornamental grass out. I am not exaggerating when I say that took over an hour. Those roots were insane.</div>
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Next, I dug a trench from the drainpipe out to the farther edge of the bed and filled it with the last of the gravel we'd sifted, so as to drain the water away from the house. Finally, I covered the bed with a tarp in order to hopefully kill the remaining weeds over time (and also remove the temptation to try to do something with the bed right this instant).<br />
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The next scheme: to slowly, carefully, begin excavating in that back corner to find out just how many buried bricks and pavers we really have. To dig up and relocate some of the many hostas. To figure out just how we want to move forward. Should be fun!</div>
pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-88412501275443785732019-05-10T11:15:00.000-04:002019-05-10T11:17:42.640-04:00Even poorly applied, mulch makes everything betterYou may remember from <a href="http://pqandmb.blogspot.com/2019/05/garden-journal-2019-its-may.html" target="_blank">my last post</a> that this Spring's big project was The Big Back Bed. You may also recall that it looked a bit a mess in spite of the obvious amount of sweat and labor and pure hair-brained optimism being applied. The good news is, it's starting to look less like a hair-brained scheme and more like a nice renovation!<br />
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To us, anyway. For the rest of you, I ask you to put on your rose-colored glasses and nod and smile as you tour What We Did the Last Few Days.<br />
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As you recall, we are extending a small round bed in the front of the back yard all the way to the back by the compost pile. The trenches having been dug, our next steps were to fill them with gravel sifted from the rich vein that appears to be under our entire yard, and then mulch the beds.<br />
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I confess, in the midst of the digging and the sifting and the weeding, I began to lose confidence in what our final outcome would be. But yesterday after work, I started filling the trenches with the giant bin full of gravel that Mulch Boy had sacrificed his back to extricate from the beds. And then I started spreading mulch on the finished parts of the beds and dagnabbit if they didn't start to look nice!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Long view of The Big Back Bed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daisy inspecting the work.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garage-side bed also got a nice dressing. Where CAN that drain pipe be??</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Corner bed may still need the most help, but mulch and new gravel have<br />
definitely made improvements.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See? From this angle (and ignoring the dead lawn), she's looking good!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Yon, the very back end of The Big Back Bed. At top left, I had plunked<br />
a wild rose and several hostas that I'd dug up from under the big pine on the<br />
other side of the yard. Let's see if I regret that wild rose.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alas, there's still much to do, but we've done way more way faster than I would<br />
have expected. Also, all that dirt? FULL OF GRAVEL.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Except this pile of dirt with the beagle on top: that's pure soil sifted out of the gravel.<br />
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It's been raining and raining and raining (and raining), so the opportunities for planting have been slim here. On the other hand, the rain-softened earth makes for easier digging up of rocks and digging of bed borders, so those have been the major activities going on the last few weeks. Even with before-and-after pics, this doesn't really look very impressive unless you are intimately acquainted with our yard. You'll just have to trust me that this is SO IMPRESSIVE.</div>
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Garage-Side Bed</h2>
This bed is on the side of the garage in the backyard. I don't have an original pic from when we first moved in--then it was just the rocks and mulch and a giant pile of random bricks. But this was an early-ish one in which I'd only added a tiny Knockout rose and two little hydrangeas, all of whom barely survived the winter. The other greens were volunteers of some sort.<br />
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The roses and hydrangeas have ended up flourishing pretty well, and last year I added some tickweed and coneflower, all of which seem to have survived this past winter. However, as much as I loved the giant rocks that formed this bed's border, they were a nuisance AS a border, making it difficult to mow around and requiring extensive weed-whacking. And so this spring's project has been to dig out and repurpose the rocks (some in the bed itself) and dig a new border trench. Since this particular bed turns out to already be secretly bordered by a buried brick walkway (!), I just dug the ditch in front of that, then filled it up with gravel. I also directed the rainspout into the trench and covered the spout with rocks, and now instead of flooding the yard, the rainwater is directed into my border trench. Neat!<br />
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OH, and also after three years of hating the pile of bricks, I sorted through them all, used some to build the wall for Muriel's herb garden, and built a tidy wall here to hide the dog-poop-collecting implements. I call it Poop Corner, and I further moved the now-sizable Knockout rose to the corner to continue growing and camouflaging Poop Corner from the scrutiny of visitors.<br />
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Backyard Corner Bed</h2>
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Directly across from the Garage-Side Bed is this little corner. Again, this is not a move-in picture, as when we first moved in, there was no bed at all. In this first photo, I believe I had just built the bed and installed the Henry Lauder Walking Stick that you can barely see in the center. It doesn't help that this is the worst part of the lawn. </div>
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Today, it... isn't a whole lot improved, honestly. BUT the Henry Lauder Walking Stick is thriving and growing, and I just moved in some rocks to add some interest and discourage dogs from tearing up the bed.</div>
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Big Back Bed</h2>
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Now this is the big ambitious project this year. When we moved it, this little bed on the left existed with the big round planter. The birdbath and the turtle were our additions. In keeping with the trenched borders I've created in the other beds, I decided to do the same thing here, albeit while still retaining a few of the rocks.</div>
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The yard that extended behind this bed was shady lawn that mostly became dirt where the shade was too deep. In short, it was ugly, and I decided to make it into another bed because OF COURSE I DID. It was... not very successful. Totally my bad because I did not edge it deep enough or maintain it properly.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First attempt at this one. EH.</td></tr>
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This past Saturday, I renewed my efforts here, digging most of the border with a hand trowel on my hands and knees because guess what? Under two inches of soil, there are endless inches of gravel. Naturally! After hours of digging, I finally had a nice solid edge that reached from hither to yon!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hither<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hither from another angle<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yonder by the compost heap</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yonder round the bend by the compost heap</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Transplanted some hostas and wild roses in this corner by the heap</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So much gravel</td></tr>
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And the rest...</h2>
Just a visual update of everyone else in the backyard.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Planted coneflowers and tickweed in this little bed last summer. Still alive!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peas and volunteer potatoes!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garlic and asparagus still kicking!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Muriel's herb garden, still in one piece despite canine invasions.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Site of future schemes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was also edged with giant rocks. Mulch Boy has repurposed most to the stone wall in front.</td></tr>
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The Front Yard</h2>
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A few before and after shots to remind myself of our efforts.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before we added anything to the left front bed</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left front bed, now with shrubs, flowers, and stones</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Right front bed, before</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Right front bed, after </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melinda Cashman gave me these ferns!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Driveway bed, first Spring, with bulbs planted our first Fall. Notice there are TWO beds...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...because I merged the two beds into one so we could plant more flowers.</td></tr>
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pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-46862595566538941662019-04-23T15:40:00.000-04:002019-04-23T15:40:08.496-04:00Garden Journal 2019<h2>
Sunday, April 21</h2>
Planted Bibb lettuce seeds in vegetable garden.<br />
Peas are UP!<br />
Planted black-eyed Susan seeds and 4 o'clocks in front yard.<br />
Dug up lot and lots of rocks and cobbles, and created new cobble border for driveway bed.<br />
Planted Mulch Boy's heather.<br />
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Pictures to follow.pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-59254656063545970102019-04-16T14:57:00.001-04:002019-04-16T15:03:51.330-04:00Promised Pictures from Last WeekendThese are really only impressive to me, so don't feel the need to do anything more than nod and smile. I have actually done very little beyond rake and clean up the mess I left last November.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Muriel, finally with a home of her own. My one true accomplishment this Spring.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh. My. God. First asparagus spears.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The glory of the compost heap, courtesy of Mulch Boy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Excavation along the driveway. These lovely cobbles<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...the lamp post, blown over in the recent high winds.<br />
Don Iguana's clematis, however, survived.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lester, Guardian of the Blackberries. Okay, I did plant these blackberry canes a friend gifted me.</td></tr>
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appear to have survived except the English daisies and Francis,<br />
although I have not given up hope. Also the Irish and Scottish<br />
moss seem... questionable.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">But check out the new stuff!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I always, ALWAYS, wanted a rock garden with sedums. Is it finally happening?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Also a few various creeping thymes, and those lilies are volunteers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hopeful hell strip. The eight black-eyed Susans I planted<br />
last year (after decimating every other living thing by hand)<br />
all appear to have survived. Now they need to act like black-<br />
eyed Susans and take over the area. I just added some of the<br />
creepy sedum and a creeping thyme to help. </td></tr>
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pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-44304025779179259822019-04-15T10:04:00.000-04:002019-04-15T10:04:26.860-04:00Garden Journal 2019: Saturday and Sunday, April 13-14<h2>
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Muriel's herb garden: planted! Also, small fence erected around Muriel's herb garden because dogs are jerks.<br />
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Weeded the big driveway bed. Added some stepping stones to the big driveway bed. Inserted Lester Guardian of the Blackberries in the big driveway bed between the blackberry canes my garden club fren gave me last week. Impulsively started to dig up the big uneven, half-buried cobblestones that seemed to border the big driveway bed with the intention of replacing them higher and more evenly. Discovered that each stone was significantly larger than I realized. I'm only about half done (I was summoned inside before I overdid it) but am already very happen with the results.<br />
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ALSO I feel compelled to shill for this tool that I bought (with much skepticism from Mulch Boy) after an episode of "This Old House" recommended it: a 6-foot iron digging bar. It's taller than me, weighs a ton, and makes levering those big ol' rocks out o the ground a piece of cake.<br />
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Pictures to follow.<br />
<br />pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-58448470091756334952019-04-11T10:07:00.000-04:002019-04-11T10:07:15.841-04:00RefectionsSince I had a few actual visitors to this blog recently, I was inspired to look back at all my entries since we moved up here to Massachusetts. My initial reason was to find out if I'd ever explained where Muriel the Naked Lady comes from (surprisingly, no) (she conveyed with the house when we bought it) (one of our movers offered us $100 for her, but we had become attached to her by then, so we turned down the offer).<br />
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But then I found myself surprised at how much I'd actually documented about our garden since we moved here--and very surprised to recall how much we'e actually accomplished. Especially in the last year, we have really transformed the front and the back and made them our own. In 2018, we had our first vegetable garden in five years, and this year we are fully one month ahead of <a href="http://pqandmb.blogspot.com/2018/05/garden-journal-2018.html" target="_blank">where we were last year</a>. That's exciting! We also transformed <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrFH3Vur1Y6SkWxNMAScsh6MQnYYsNAkaFeP6A-7jozW7oZmXT30HLLViOHw8yxZ7-qOqgR9bT_Nja5geBAg8BfUXJao5xjR5yUE7PCG4dMxALiEemtzUGzWzTEQvnYZPpHixJcd3Rg3k/s1600/IMG_1326.JPG" target="_blank">this mess</a> into an actual attractive, usable bed, where I just transplanted six blackberry canes generously donated by a new friend in the North Shore Garden Club.<br />
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In short, I had no idea how much we'd accomplished in the last four years. I unfortunately often focus only on what is wrong, what I haven't done, what I'm not pleased with. I need to remedy that. I'm pretty sure that's what Muriel would advise.pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-42313193887776341302019-04-10T09:49:00.000-04:002019-04-10T09:49:32.661-04:00Garden Journal 2019<h2>
Weekend of April 6</h2>
Peas are IN.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left: Tall Telephone peas 2019<br />Middle: Lincoln peas, 2019<br />Right: Lincoln peas, 2018</td></tr>
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The new bed is built, and Muriel the naked lady finally had a home of her own.<br />
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All the leaves and trash from the street are raked and bagged.<br />
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All the beds are raked and old perennials trimmed.<br />
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Mulch Boy cleaned and organized the entire compost heap, and then trimmed a bunch of overhanging branches to bring more light into the backyard.pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-48146012654969243902019-04-05T09:11:00.001-04:002019-04-05T09:11:11.670-04:00Uh oh, ideas.<h2>
Big Idea</h2>
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<a href="https://www.tenthacrefarm.com/front-yard-rainwater-catchment/">https://www.tenthacrefarm.com/front-yard-rainwater-catchment/</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.americanmeadows.com/perennials/sedum/how-to-grow-sedum">https://www.americanmeadows.com/perennials/sedum/how-to-grow-sedum</a><br />
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<br />pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-71749622715677556762019-04-02T10:23:00.001-04:002019-04-02T10:23:02.743-04:002019 Garden Journal<h2>
Saturday and Sunday, March 30-31</h2>
Cleaned out raised beds of vegetable garden and weeded.<br />
Raked out last year's leaves from beds.<br />
Trimmed down dead perennials.<br />
Cleaned out and weeded new bed for herb garden and began building brick wall.<br />
Got pea netting.<br />
Found dead squirrel in front yard.<br />
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Mulch Boy bagged or bound every stick and branch in the giant pile of sticks and branches in the compost pile, then organized the compost pile into different piles, then he took all my leaves from the front yard and put them in the compost pile. He is my hero.pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-54618972825327457422019-02-05T13:30:00.001-05:002019-02-05T13:39:25.438-05:00First Garden Without DadOn November 19, 2018, my wonderful dad died from complications from Alzheimer's.<br />
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Since then, I've moved my mom from Ohio to a mile down the road from me in Massachusetts, seen her through a hospital stay for pneumonia, and worked to settle all the many details that go with an estate. That work is getting closer to finished, and I find myself starting to consider what normal life is going to look like from now on.<br />
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Today, I glanced at this blog for the first time in months, saw the pictures of our first successful vegetable garden here in New England... and then realized that this year, I will raise my first garden without Dad observing, advising, or cheerleading. That was a punch in the gut I wasn't expecting just now.<br />
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I suppose this year will be full of these moments, and I need to be prepared for that. I have tears right now at the thought of my first spring without Dad. The joy and satisfaction I get out of the garden, out of growing things--my daddy gave me that. There is no separating the thought of him from gardening.<br />
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Some of my earliest memories are of him in our Virginia basement: he had a picnic table set up with grow lights, and every year started vegetables there. I remember he grew lettuce and strawberries and raspberries, cucumbers and tomatoes. Over the years there was garlic and zucchini and watermelon and rhubarb and I'm sure other things I don't remember.<br />
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Of course there were also the flowers: azaleas, jonquils, tulips, crocuses, hyacinths, pansies, strawflowers, black-eyed Susans, peonies, and roses. Every winter, I looked forward to his Jackson and Perkins rose catalog arriving, hoping that this year's edition would be a scratch 'n' sniff version.<br />
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To my knowledge, Dad never grew blackberries, which is surprising because he loved them. When we went for Sunday drives, he would keep an eye open in the summer for brambles along the road, and stop to pick berries if he saw them. There were empty lots he knew about where they were plentiful, too, and we'd make special trips to forage. Perhaps he thought blackberries were better wild, and that the hunt made them sweeter. Maybe it did: I've rarely had one in adulthood that matched my memory of those sweet berries by the side of the road.<br />
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Now I'm thinking of the coming spring. There will be cold, sunny days when the first crocuses bloom, and I struggle to remember where I planted last year's bulbs. I'll start thinking about buying seeds and wondering whether I should try starting some indoors this year. Mulch will turn the compost pile, and I'll clear out the raised beds for the coming vegetable garden. There will be that glorious smell of rich soil on dirty hands that will make me think of Dad even more this year that it always does. And I will probably cry, and that will be okay.<br />
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Planting</h4>
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<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">May 9: Strawberries and blueberries</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">May 16: Beets, peas, potatoes, blueberries</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">May 26: Wax beans, green beans, arugula, mesclun</li>
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Harvesting!</h4>
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pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-22586548202405978942018-07-03T08:40:00.000-04:002018-07-03T08:40:02.682-04:00Brief Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So the garden has definitely exploded! Last night I harvested and ate a head of bibb lettuce. Beets are beginning to show their heads. Tomatoes, potatoes, beans, eggplants, jalapenos, and peas are all flowering. And there are six asparagus ferns! Woo and hoo!pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-6734318589310377332018-06-11T15:21:00.001-04:002018-06-13T13:10:58.366-04:00More Garden Journal Update Than Anyone Really Wants but TOO BAD!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Well, what a productive weekend! I still have some ornamentals to get in the ground, but I'm calling the veggie gahden DONE. Click on any picture to embiggen.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front raised bed: now with strawberries, marigolds, geraniums, bell peppers, one tomato (Mortgage Lifter), and a "Pacific Rim" reenactment.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">The asparagus lives!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eggplant seedlings. Feels a little like cheating but WHATEVER.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More cheating: purchased jalapeno plants.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wax beans and green beans.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Buttahcrisp lettuce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leeks. When do these stop looking like hair?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cheater tomato: Brandywine.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More cheater tomatoes: Hillbilly and Belgian Giant.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carrots!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beets!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The other potatoes!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peas!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tomatoes that may or may not have germinated, hence...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">... cheater tomato: Mr. Stripey.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cucumbers!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cayenne and jalapeno pepper fail.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mesclun and arugula on the porch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oregano, tarragon, basil, rosemary, and chives finally rescued from their original pots.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cheater cherry tomatoes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The whole gahden.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The mojito garden (i.e., mint).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last year's roses and hydrangeas survived after all!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This guy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Buds!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wow! This was unexpected.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If I recall, this is just a Knockout rose, but my old one in Virginia didn't have such layered flowers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No buds but we're still proud of you!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not getting tired of this.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is, I think, a wild rose that just shows up under The Big Pine Tree.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waiting for it to bloom, considering relocating it somewhere sunnier and more visible.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It got big fast.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wild rose in context.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After a hard day's work...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">... it's time for some lollygagging...</td></tr>
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<br />pqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876994478538351281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758190243542135003.post-76365563416186511352018-06-11T14:56:00.001-04:002019-04-18T09:43:35.059-04:00The Power of WeedingThe never-ending task. But everything looks SO much nicer when you attend to it.<br />
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