Garden projects.
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rebeccmeisterToday, I:
-Dug all of the grass out of the squash bed, shook out the soil, and put the grass/weeds in the leaf compost.
-Disassembled 1.5 "crop circles" and moved the concrete semicircles and soil to the front garden beds.
-Raked a bunch of leaves out of the ditch.
-Repotted the satsuma tree
-Took down most of the Christmas lights, except the ones which were really high up.
-Sawed down a snag/stump that was sticking through the chain link fence and putting a lot of weight/pressure on it.
Pictures follow. Now I will make white bean minestrone and work on projects inside. Also, I have learned that if I wear a certain chicken hat and a wool Pendelton shirt, not as many cars honk at me while I'm doing yardwork. Whether it was the shirt or the hat, I don't know, because when it warmed up I took both off and got honked at several times. The joys of yardwork along a busy street in Texas. I'll have to try the hat experiment again some other time.
Hey, the tomato-ripening trick has worked! Not the most amazing tomatoes ever, but it's still nice to have fresh ones.
The eggplant likes being inside! This is an amazing plant. Over two years old and still making eggplants.
The satsuma tree isn't looking too happy. I repotted it today - it had very wet feet. I hadn't realized that adding sand to the bottom would clog the works so much. Now there are some large rocks at the bottom, and a bit of fresh soil as well. Hopefully the improved drainage happened in time for the tree to recover.
Hmm, the lemon tree has looked better, too...I'm not sure about what's going on with it - perhaps the dry air inside made it unhappy (I just moved it back outside). It was showing other signs of unhappiness previously, and I'd hoped that some soil amendments (worm castings) would help. They seemed like they helped to some extent, but now I don't know.
A freeze killed the tomatoes. Time to take them all down! (Actually, I took them all down, yesterday - saved the wood frame and tomato cages for the next round of tomatoes this year...)gar
A couple of the onion starts survived, creating a dilemma - leave the circle and maybe get some onions, or disassemble it and get more good soil for the front? I've opted to leave it for now, with the hope that the dog won't continue to dig here...
Chilly fig tree - S added the concrete "pool noodles" to keep the dog from digging around the base of the tree. I hope they don't compact the soil too much!
Freshly dug-out front section - I pulled out as much as the grass as I could. I'm thinking of planting flowers inside the semicircles, then vegetables in the middle. Up next will be adding in drip irrigation and beginning to plant things! It will be interesting to see how the weeds do in the front section as compared to the neighboring section (on the left), which was solarized for most of last summer to kill the grass.
Backyard, now with 1.5 fewer crop circles, no more dead tomatoes, and an even larger leaf heap.
-Dug all of the grass out of the squash bed, shook out the soil, and put the grass/weeds in the leaf compost.
-Disassembled 1.5 "crop circles" and moved the concrete semicircles and soil to the front garden beds.
-Raked a bunch of leaves out of the ditch.
-Repotted the satsuma tree
-Took down most of the Christmas lights, except the ones which were really high up.
-Sawed down a snag/stump that was sticking through the chain link fence and putting a lot of weight/pressure on it.
Pictures follow. Now I will make white bean minestrone and work on projects inside. Also, I have learned that if I wear a certain chicken hat and a wool Pendelton shirt, not as many cars honk at me while I'm doing yardwork. Whether it was the shirt or the hat, I don't know, because when it warmed up I took both off and got honked at several times. The joys of yardwork along a busy street in Texas. I'll have to try the hat experiment again some other time.
Hey, the tomato-ripening trick has worked! Not the most amazing tomatoes ever, but it's still nice to have fresh ones.
The eggplant likes being inside! This is an amazing plant. Over two years old and still making eggplants.
The satsuma tree isn't looking too happy. I repotted it today - it had very wet feet. I hadn't realized that adding sand to the bottom would clog the works so much. Now there are some large rocks at the bottom, and a bit of fresh soil as well. Hopefully the improved drainage happened in time for the tree to recover.
Hmm, the lemon tree has looked better, too...I'm not sure about what's going on with it - perhaps the dry air inside made it unhappy (I just moved it back outside). It was showing other signs of unhappiness previously, and I'd hoped that some soil amendments (worm castings) would help. They seemed like they helped to some extent, but now I don't know.
A freeze killed the tomatoes. Time to take them all down! (Actually, I took them all down, yesterday - saved the wood frame and tomato cages for the next round of tomatoes this year...)gar
A couple of the onion starts survived, creating a dilemma - leave the circle and maybe get some onions, or disassemble it and get more good soil for the front? I've opted to leave it for now, with the hope that the dog won't continue to dig here...
Chilly fig tree - S added the concrete "pool noodles" to keep the dog from digging around the base of the tree. I hope they don't compact the soil too much!
Freshly dug-out front section - I pulled out as much as the grass as I could. I'm thinking of planting flowers inside the semicircles, then vegetables in the middle. Up next will be adding in drip irrigation and beginning to plant things! It will be interesting to see how the weeds do in the front section as compared to the neighboring section (on the left), which was solarized for most of last summer to kill the grass.
Backyard, now with 1.5 fewer crop circles, no more dead tomatoes, and an even larger leaf heap.
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Date: 2013-01-13 10:24 pm (UTC)The satsuma and lemon *may* pull through, but I'm not going to make any firm declarations until we're out of frost season. It doesn't look like Luna is going anywhere near the fig, so far...