Category: Gardening
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Gardening Diary – March 9, 2021
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Purple Smoke Bush Bed. Picture taken on 9 March 2021. Continued weeding the Purple Smoke Bush bed and spread out bags of pine bark mini nuggets mulch on most of the bed. Sprayed Ortho GroundClear Weed and Grass Killer on the area between the mulch and the grass or the…
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Gardening Diary – March 5, 2021
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Front bulb bed. Picture taken on March 5, 2021. Completed weeding and mulching the front bulb bed on the left side of the old Holly bush. Used all of the bags of mulch which I had originally allotted to cover the Daffodil bed. Center of the Purple Smoke Bush bed.…
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Gardening Diary – March 4, 2021
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Pink Muhly Grass [Muhlenbergia capillaris] Picture taken on March 4, 2021. Completed adding pine bark mini-nuggets mulch to the 2 Pink Muhly beds and Serviceberry [Amelanchier sp.] Picture taken on March 4, 2021. around the Serviceberry [Amelanchier sp.]. Front bulb bed. Picture taken on March 4, 2021. Started to put…
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Gardening Diary – March 2, 2021
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For the last day of preparing the straw bales, fertilized all the straw bales using Alaska Morbloom Fertilizer (0-10-10). On all but two of the straw bales, used 1 cup of this fertilizer in a gallon of water on 1 straw bale; on each of the last 2 straw bales,…
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Gardening Diary – February 25, 2021
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For the seventh day of preparing the straw bales, fertilized all the straw bales using 1 cup of Alaska Fish Fertilizer in 2 gallons of water for 4 straw bales. Continued working in the front yard. Pink Muhly Grass [Muhlenbergia capillaris] Picture taken 25 February 2021. Weeded the 2 Pink…
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Gardening Diary – February 24, 2021
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For the sixth day of preparing the straw bales, fertilized all the straw bales using 1 cup of Alaska Fish Fertilizer in 2 gallons of water for 4 straw bales. Started working in the front yard. Before: Pink Muhly Grass [Muhlenbergia capillaris] Picture taken 24 February 2021. After: Pink Muhly…
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Gardening Diary – February 23, 2021
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Left side of the tier bed. Picture taken on 23 February 2021. Removed half of the green plastic fence from the left side of the tier bed. The fence consisted of 2 pieces and I removed 1 of them. Straw bale bed #7 Picture taken on 23 February 2021. Wrapped…
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Gardening Diary – February 22, 2021
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Took the cut-up palettes, which we loaded in the car on Saturday, to the Solid Waste Management and dropped them off there along with the plastic coverings. In addition to skipping the 2nd fertilization of the straw bale beds, we decided to skip the 3rd fertilization which was scheduled for yesterday. Today,…
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Gardening Diary – February 20, 2021
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Noah and I moved the 4 palettes to the backyard. Sawed each of the palettes into 3 sections; Noah helped with the sawing by holding the palettes. We moved the 12 pieces to the car. Stepping stones. Picture taken on 23 February 2021. After removing the 6 stepping stones from…