What have you done today in the Garden?

Just got back from a morning out visiting family.

Too hot now in our shade-less garden, so will pack for our weekend away and have a general tidy round inside.

Will go out later this evening and deadhead, water and move pots into whatever shady areas we can find .And then keep our fingers crossed they survive the hot weekend to come.

 

This seems to be the busiest time of year for everyone. And lots of harvesting and cleaning weeds and the best is yet to come. Fall my fav time of year.

Decided to use the blower on the driveway after using the weedwacker in several places along the driveway to eliminate the weeds popping up along the border edges. Then reclaimed the circles round 5 paper birch trees that seemed to have also included a couple of moles . Geezzz. Then mowed the front and back lawns and part of the pasture. Washed off the mower and cleaned the brand new blades. The repair guy said there was hardly any blades left and they needed to be replaced and wow it’s a whole different experience with brand new mower blades.

Tried to chop out and around the darn blackberries (wearing blackberry gear) , around the flower beds and cut off a couple tree limbs that were encroaching along one side of the pasture. Then blew off the area round the trees and clean up the area a bit. You could eat off my driveway floor , however….. I wouldn’t take that claim to heart. But it’s super clean. Finally . Just need to have a power-washer guy come out and eliminate the shady spots under the trees where the moss thrives and has grown thick in spots. Maybe do the roof and the barn. Those pine needles and the moss are really a constant threat to anything that doesn’t move,

I also noticed while doing the pasture check that the bobcat is scratching along the areas where the ground squirrels have had their under ground dens. Soo.. I guess the squirrels aren’t totally gone yet.

It’s a beautiful cool day and everything in the garden is growing like they are on steroids… super fast this year with the cooler weather.

Ya all have a nice day..