popular What have you done today in the Garden?

Thanks, this time i have to buy the fruit filling, i hope that your family can visit.

 

Sorry you are going through that Pac.

I agree with you about contractors. It's really hard to find a good one and even then, there are issues. It's why sone jobs never get done here.

 

I hauled four more wagons of leaves to the vegetable garden area. It's becoming quite the leaf mountain. I there are three more wagons from the horse chestnut. The chestnuts are dropping their leaves now. They are not as distant from the garden, and not where neighbors can see them, so it's OK to wait longer for those.

I cut the remaining two fig trees that were next to the house. That clears the rest of the defensible zone for wildfire risk mitigation. I was waiting until the air layers that I started from them in 2023 became bearing size, and now they are.

I started removing fig trees from the area near the neighbor's easement. They aren't too much trouble but those varieties bear too late to be useful, so three or four fig trees to remove. Less pruning and cleanup in the future, and they encroach slightly onto the easement. Then I will have my three favorites, which are small but still bearing size now, and that will be plenty. The chain saw needs a new chain so I might wait until after I go into town tomorrow, before doing more.

I started cleaning up the rose garden. Next year it will have mowed pathways. It's mostly mint, but that's OK. The challenging part is getting the wild blackberries removed roots and all. Those are mostly the native ones that grow along the ground making long strands like barbed wire. I started cutting the tallest rose bushes. The tallest teas are about 12 feet tall. I cut three back down to 4 feet, and plan to cut them back to 1 or 2 feet when growth resumes in Spring.

The chicken house beckons. It needs cleaning.

 

I bet those fig roots are gonna fight back. They can be tough.

 

As we arrived back home just before 4pm and it was still raining I had time to spruce up some more of the patio pavers.

 

Leaf clean up. It is a nice sunny morning . It’s going to rain later this afternoon. So taking advantage of the sunshine and trimming some of the tree rhodies. I swear some are as big as understory trees. Treachoisly leaning up on the roof blocking the downspouts . Sprayed 3 gallons of bleach up on the roof tiles, hoping to discourage moss developement.

 

Around here, deer eat young fig growth. The trees do grow back, but eventually give up after repeated deer meals. If not the deer, I'll just cut the regrowth off.

The websites I read say deer don't eat fig trees. The deer around here have not read those websites.

In the wildfire defense area, I cut the trunk flush with the ground. Any regrowth can be mowed along with the grass.

 

Daniel— who’s the clever clogs then.

 

That is funny @Daniel W , that the deer have not read the websites...

I have seen websites, even the local news, claim that cicadas do not harm trees, yet they killed several of my cherry trees summer of 2024...My trees were covered in thousands and thousands of cicadas that summer. I guess they also do not read websites. Those trees are still dead and will get cut down when son gets time to do it.

 

If not there is always triclopyr.