Category: Gardening

Noah emptied the garden shed and placed the contents into 2 piles, tools and rest of stuff. He brought the bags of garbage that he collected from cleaning the porch to the area along the right side of the fence. Sharon and I further sorted the stuff into 3 categories,…

As we walked in the front yard, Toyo Nishiki Flowering Quince[Chaenomeles specios ‘Toyo Nishiki’]Picture taken on March 6, 2023 we noticed that the Toyo Nishiki Flowering Quince was almost in full bloom. Next to the Toyo Nishiki Flowering Quince, the Scarlet Storm Flowering Quince started to show red buds. The Daffodils…

We continued to clean up in the yard. Sharon worked along the right fence and I behind the Texas Scarlet Flowering Quince [Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Texas Scarlet’]. Pictures taken today (6):

This morning there was a lot of rain. This afternoon, we noticed that many of the Daffodils [Narcissus sp.] were in full bloom.

Sharon was cleaning the back bed along the walkway behind the Texas Scarlet Flowering Quince [Chaenomeles speciosa‘Texas Scarlet’], etc. while I was cutting down the volunteer trees and bushes that were growing in the Texas Scarlet Flowering Quince and the Azaleas [,hododendron sp.] at the right side of the front…

Sharon and I took 3 bags full of garden trash, that was collected last Friday, over to the Knox County dump. In addition, we took one of the chippers and one of the reciprocating saws both of which were no longer working.

With warm weather for the few days of the week, we went out to work in the garden. I took the wagon, that was filled up back in last November, over to Dave’s gulley and emptied the limbs from our pruning. Then Sharon and I partially cleaned up the back…