Time has passed pretty quickly....I have been diligent about working outside each morning and am happy to report the garden is cleared!!!
This is the cleared east end:
This end is where the pepper patch lurked; now exposed and I harvested more this morning.
I have red, green, and yellow cheese peppers, giant jalapenos, red Maule, and Anchos. I was supposed to have hot Hungarian Wax, but they are missing. Don't know what happened unless Baker Creek got confused!
I want to string some on fishing line and try drying them. But that may not happen......sounds good though.
Also on this end is the row of sweet potatoes. The vines are very lush but I also found a tuber in a hill so I have hopes for a good crop. I will wait until frost time to dig.
The west end had a row of 20 foot elm saplings all along the asparagus row. This row began at the blackberry bush and ran west to the pear tree. The men did not paint the stumps as promised last year so they regrew like crazy. I cut them using the chain saw like a hedge clipper yesterday morning and it went very rapidly. I have just stacked them in the garden; the help- meet will later load and haul them off for me.
(see the peach tree stump? I couldn't resist leaving it for maybe a clematis to climb next year......I can always cut it down if that doesn't work)
I also did some lopping along the garden fence and am near to having it ready to mulch again. My heirloom rose is blooming again and looking very lovely. No pepper scent on this one; just a strong rose fragrance. I have done some research and believe it to be Reines des Violette. I know I had one. It is nearly thornless, very fragrant and is a hybrid perpetual rose. I need to feed it again. It does well in some shade and this one is.
This view is looking east along the fence. I have just laid the lopped plants along the fence, later to be removed (remember when the helpmeet gets around to his part).
See that tree behind the smokehouse? I think it needs to go! maybe tomorrow.
Remember the three pumpkins I discovered??? Well, the possum found them too!
We have now eliminated three but there seems to be no end to them.
Oh, BTW, I did paint the stumps this morning using diesel. That works for me often. I didn't get spray mixed to hit the jungle behind the shop but that will be next.
I have been letting the girls come into the garden and dig and scratch. They do love to toss that mulch around. We are consistently getting 5 eggs from 5 hens. Very pleased with that.
This is the cleared east end:
This end is where the pepper patch lurked; now exposed and I harvested more this morning.
I have red, green, and yellow cheese peppers, giant jalapenos, red Maule, and Anchos. I was supposed to have hot Hungarian Wax, but they are missing. Don't know what happened unless Baker Creek got confused!
I want to string some on fishing line and try drying them. But that may not happen......sounds good though.
Also on this end is the row of sweet potatoes. The vines are very lush but I also found a tuber in a hill so I have hopes for a good crop. I will wait until frost time to dig.
The west end had a row of 20 foot elm saplings all along the asparagus row. This row began at the blackberry bush and ran west to the pear tree. The men did not paint the stumps as promised last year so they regrew like crazy. I cut them using the chain saw like a hedge clipper yesterday morning and it went very rapidly. I have just stacked them in the garden; the help- meet will later load and haul them off for me.
(see the peach tree stump? I couldn't resist leaving it for maybe a clematis to climb next year......I can always cut it down if that doesn't work)
I also did some lopping along the garden fence and am near to having it ready to mulch again. My heirloom rose is blooming again and looking very lovely. No pepper scent on this one; just a strong rose fragrance. I have done some research and believe it to be Reines des Violette. I know I had one. It is nearly thornless, very fragrant and is a hybrid perpetual rose. I need to feed it again. It does well in some shade and this one is.
This view is looking east along the fence. I have just laid the lopped plants along the fence, later to be removed (remember when the helpmeet gets around to his part).
See that tree behind the smokehouse? I think it needs to go! maybe tomorrow.
Remember the three pumpkins I discovered??? Well, the possum found them too!
We have now eliminated three but there seems to be no end to them.
Oh, BTW, I did paint the stumps this morning using diesel. That works for me often. I didn't get spray mixed to hit the jungle behind the shop but that will be next.
I have been letting the girls come into the garden and dig and scratch. They do love to toss that mulch around. We are consistently getting 5 eggs from 5 hens. Very pleased with that.
