Category: Gardening
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Gardening Diary – November 7, 2022
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Rain barrels Pictures taken November 7, 2022. This week, we had the gutters on the house replaced. Since we have not used the rain barrels, we removed their connections from the gutter system. Additional photographs (9) taken today: Ackerman Hybrid Camellia [Camill[a Ackerman Hybrid] Pictures taken on November 7, 2022…
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Gardening Diary – November 5, 2022
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Sharon and I took the remains of the palette, which we took apart on October 21, over to the city dump. Last week, when we purchased the Chrysanthemums [Chrysanthemum sp.] from Stanley’s Greenhouse last week, we also purchased a Christmas Cactus [Schlumbergera × buckleyi]. A couple of days ago, planted…
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Gardening Diary – November 2, 2022
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Continued to weed the front bulb bed. As yesterday, the main weeds were Onion and Violets. Pruned back the three Hibiscus plants [Hibiscus moscheutos] and cut back to the ground the three Bloomify™ Red Lantana [Lantana camara PP29,292] that was in the area which we weeded. Other Photographs (1) taken today:
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Gardening Diary – October 25, 2022
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Sharon and I were finally able to take the wagon with the weeds from October 6 over to Dave’s gulley. Mike had moved some of the refuse from the cutting of the big tree in his front lawn in Dave’s gulley about 12 days ago. The people who cut down…
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Gardening Diary – October 21, 2022
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Sharon and I weeded the 2 beds containing the Mugo Pines [Pinus mugo]. Most of the weeds were Onions and Violets. We added 3 2 ft3 bags of pine bark mini nuggets mulch to each of these beds. 1 bag of mulch was added to the bed containing the Red Twig…
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Gardening Diary – October 19, 2022
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Photographs (3) taken today: Threadleaf Blue Star [Amsonia hubrichtii] Picture taken on October 19, 2022.
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Gardening Diary – October 17, 2022
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Sharon and I finished weeding the Smoke Bush bed. Moved about 10 2 ft3 bags of pine bark mini nuggets mulch to this bed. Then Sharon (mostly) and I spread the mulch over this bed. Additional photo (1) taken today: Red Leaf Barberry Hedges [Berberis thunbergii ‘Atropurpurea’] Picture taken on October 17, 2022.
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Gardening Diary – October 14, 2022
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Sharon continued to weed the Sunny Knock Out bed. Swept up the mulch that was on driveway side of the recently installed EasyFlex Scallop Woodgrain No-Dig Edging on the Sunny Knock Out Roses bed and placed the mulch on the other side of the Edging. Opened the 3 bags of pine…
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Gardening Diary – October 10, 2022
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Sharon weeded the Sunny Knock Out bed. Most of the weeds were Onions and Violets. There were also patches of Bermuda Grass; I sprayed Ortho Grass B Gon on these patches. Installed 2 rolls of EasyFlex Scallop Woodgrain No-Dig Edging 20-ft Black Plastic Landscape Edging Roll on the Sunny Knock Out…
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Gardening Diary – October 6, 2022
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Sharon and I took the wagon containing the weeds from last Tuesday over to Dave’s gulley. Sharon and I continued to weed the back bed concentrating on the left side.