Are you putting in a garden this year?
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I'm actually trying to expand mine
Haven't gotten much farther than staking out the new bed and going around the outside with an edger. Must skim off the grass and turn the soil, add compost, and bury some veggies in it. I'm hoping to get some of that done this week/weekend. The weather has been really bi-polar and contrary, raining and cold on the days I have time to garden and sunny and warm on the days I'm too busy to get out there and dig. But I'm determined and may just end up gardening in the rain, anyway. Up to a point.
Anhata
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Got most of mine done.
Got most of mine done. tomato plants (6 of them) and pepper plants (4) are planted. Seeds for the squash, beans (pole and bush), cantelope, cucumbers, and some of the corn planted. Still to do: carrots and onions.
I WILL have lots of help with the garden this year. Because DD9 is doing vegetable gardening as one of her 4-H projects, so she MUST help. LOL!
I put no, but...
no veg for me this year. My gargantuan task is to whip this garden into shape in time to be putting it onto the market by this time next year. Having just been thoroughly whipped myself by the strimmer, lawnmower and hedge trimmer I figure that extras are strictly not an option! All of you ladies living without your fellas on a regular basis, I take my hat of to you all, because I'm pooped just trying to do this much gardening by myself, and our place is really not so big!
anybody got great ways to get rid of dead conifers? I have a couple of brown ones, but they're set back into beds and I know from helping my parents with one last summer that you need good access to dig them out properly. I hacked one off and left it all sculptural and interesting, but I don't think prospective buyers will find them particularly interesting. I may have to get a gardener in to help me wih that and getting the hedge into a sensible. Who says corner plots are the best!?! Ours is totally fronted by mixed hedge (beech, hawthorn, wild rose (!?!), something red I can't remember, weeds!) and neither DH nor I is really used to hedges or hedge trimmers so we didn't do a great job last year, and this year... OUCH!
don't care how many bedrooms the next house has, but it'll definitely NOT have a hedge!
Kerri.
different scale Jenny!!!
one of these trees is only about 2 1/2ft high and the other's only about a foot taller, so I don't think any tractor would have much to grip on. But thanks for the visual of having a tractor in my back garden - it's only about the size of a tennis court, so that's giving me a great laugh!
I think I need a professional because even on small conifers the roots can be a nightmare and without easy access brute force isn't going to stand a chance.
Kerri.
my little garden
The strawberries are making little fruits already, we have had such unseasonably nice weather for the last few weeks! I'm going to plant some tomatoes this year, and have a go at garlic. Other than that I am sticking to flowers this year.
I have planted sweet peas and morning glory and have an thunbergia (black eyed susie) waiting to go in. I have some saxifrage (London Pride) and a hardy mesembreanthemum coming from ebay any day soon.
I have actually started a garden blog and as soon as I work out how to upload photos to the damn thing I may share
Watch this space....
Honey.
We had a huge dead apricot
We had a huge dead apricot tree when we moved here. After 4 years of looking at it, DH decided to hook it up to the tractor and see what happened. He had planned on tearing it down one big branch at a time. But the entire thing just popped up.
I also had a huge cactus garden in the front yard when we moved in. It was horrid! We ended up knocking out the concrete wall around the yard in order to get a front-end loader in to tear the darn things out!
However, unless you have a tractor or a friend with one and a way and room to have it in your yard, I would call a professional tree hacker. LOL!