Just a quick run around the garden today: weeding, deadheading and spraying on the MiracleGro!

I didn't really plan to, but I spent six hours in the yard today! (and now I'm too tired to clean inside, which was what I was planning to do today) But it did feel good to get so much done and I love being outside. Here's what I did:

Front yard:
Cleaned the garage and inside my car
Deadheaded and weeded the beds
Trimmed the weeping tree - it's going crazy!
Hosed off the front porch and the entire driveway and gutter.
(I know that it's not PC to do that anymore ~ we live in a desert, don't you know! But we recently got our road resurfaced and the black bits of asphalt were driving me nuts. And I haven't done it in a year or more)

Back yard:
Trimmed up the trees and weeded the back bed
Weeded and hoed the garden
Poop scooped
Hosed off the patio (I know, the PC thing again)
Cleaned out the new campfire bowl - ready for next time!

It doesn't seem like this should take six hours, but I guess I'm getting old!
(I did take a lunch break inside for a little while)

Today I sprayed miracle gro on the garden, and all flower beds. My grass seed is coming up nicely. I need to do a more thorough trimming/weeding next week.

Yesterday I sprayed for bugs. I have had some of my petunias, zucchini and mimilus with their leaves all wholly and eaten - so distressing! Hopefully, the spray of Triazicide with take care of those pests!

I also weeded and deadheaded the beds.

Today

Today I finished the last two spots in the yard.

I cleaned out the weeds in the hammock bed.
I definitely need to spend more time IN the hammock!

This is the spot that where I took out the old, woody lilac bush last year. I finally got it cleaned out (I put roundup on the weeds a couple of weeks ago and got everything out with a pitchfork today) and I planted grass seed. Hopefully it will come up and fill in soon!

Today I also weeded, deadheaded and sprayed miracle gro on the front beds and the garden.

May 25, 2009

The backyard bed. I like it because it is a nice view from the sitting room window.

I got the patio and bbq all cleaned up and ready for summer

I like how this tree is growing and provides shade for the patio in the evening. I planted a new flower "mimilus" here this year. I usually do impatiens.

Annie and the garden. I'm working on getting a fence guy here to fix the broken post.

The mailbox bed. I planted dark blue lobelia, marigold, light blue lobelia and pink petunias in a pattern across the front.

I am so pleased with the climbing clematis growing up the mailbox. I planted it at least five years ago and this is the first year that it has really taken off.

Since taking out the pine tree last year I had a space so this year I added a juniper, a varigated dogwood and a columbine (perennials) and a couple of geraniums (annuals)

You can see the blooming (blue,lacy flowers) forget-me-nots at the end of this bed. I love them! I added four more forget-me-nots this year on either sides of the barberi.

I planted the same pattern of lobelia, marigold and petunias in front of the laurel bush, but something keeps eating the petunias! I planted them twice. Heather says it's snails that hide in the bark during the day and eat the petunias as night.

The front porch in all its Fourth of July finery. I moved the Ikea chairs out to the porch for more seating. I think the spot in the lawn is from Annie - I guess I'll have to do something about that.

The Past

As I start this new garden journal I wanted to begin by recording the garden journal I kept for last year.

Note: MG = miracle gro, W = weed


MARCH -cleaned out beds

APRIL
20 $225 take out lilac, tree, trim laurel
29 $171 Cook's

MAY
4 clean out rocks & window wells
6 roundup weeds
8 MG, deadhead geraniums
13 MG
28 MG Clean out front

JUNE
3 clean out rocks /sand
9 plant lobelia mailbox & laurel, geraniums & daisies/Fourth of July porch, trim weeping cherry and plant veg garden, MG front &back
10 clean out back beds, plant impatiens, add bark
13 plant 12 tomatoes, MG back
14 shed clean
20 manure in garden $60
26 MG all

JULY
10 W/MG all
21 weed front
28 weed all

AUGUST
30 weed all

SEPT
pulled out lobelia, fall décor

OCT
14 cleaned out beds, plant flat pansies blue & white, 60 blue scilla bulbs 64 red & yellow tulips in bunches in 3 in frontbeds. Turned off water cleaned outvalves and left cap off in front yard (Todd)