Category: Straw bale bed #6
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Gardening Diary – April 20, 2024
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Some pictures from the front garden: Sharon and Larry started to “clean up” the area between the back bed and the collection, raised beds #5-6, former spice bed, Green-headed Coneflowers bed, etc. This area contained the raised beds #1-4. We discussed the possibility of using the clean up area as…
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Gardening Diary – April 11, 2024
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After pondering the pro’s and con’s of fixing the backflow device for the irrigation system, finally decided to forgo fixing it. Since we had decided last year to remove the vegetable raised beds and to change focus to the maintaining of primarily bushes and trees in the backyard, the need…
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Gardening Diary – February 9, 2022
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Cardinal Red Twig Dogwood [Cornus sericea ‘Cardinal’] Picture was taken on February 9, 2022. Started to prune the Cardinal Red Twig Dogwood that was next to the Dappled Willow [Salix integra ‘Hakuro Nishiki’] which we finished pruning a couple of days ago. The pruning is essentially the removal of twigs that were…
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Gardening Diary – June 16, 2021
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Walkway between the back porch and the Rose bed. Picture taken on June 16, 2021. Walkway between Rose bed and second bulb bed. Picture taken on June 16, 2021. Weed-eated the walkway between the back porch and the Rose bed, the walkway between the Rose bed and the second bulb…
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Gardening Diary – June 15, 2021
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Sharon and I took 6 bags of garden trash to the Knox County dump. Sharon planted Velvet Queen Sunflower [Helianthus annuus] seeds and Chianti Hybrid Sunflower seeds in raised bed #5. These were Burpee seeds and purchased by Elizabeth last year. After this, Sharon continued to weed the herb raised…
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Gardening Diary – June 14, 2021
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Vanilla Marigolds [Tagetes “Vanilla”] Picture taken June 14, 2021 Sharon planted the rest of the Vanilla Marigolds that we had purchased. Sharon started weeding the spice raised bed (#6). Removed the large weeds from the bed along the right fence from the utility shed to the cross fence. Watered the…
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Gardening Diary – January 26, 2021
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Raised bed #6 Picture taken on January 26, 2021. Moved all the pots that were in raised bed #7 over to the raised bed #6. For several years, we had these pots on shelves at the back of the house in the “herb bed”. These shelves began to deteriorate even…
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Gardening Diary – January 23, 2021
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Raised beds #1-6 and 2nd Bulb bed. Picture taken January 23, 2021. Completed weed-eating the walkway along the right side of raised beds #1-4 and the walkways on either side of raised beds #5-6. Also weed-eated the raised beds #3-4. Removed the stalks of the Sunflowers that were in raised…