Finally got home last Thursday to find the vegetable garden over grown with weed where I had not put down mulch for the potatoes and the rose garden , I had totally weed two weeks before once again full of weeds.
Good thing very few Crab Gras plants plus it rained the night I got home so weeding was easy as I had roto-tilled the empty part of the garden last time I was home and not walked all over it so most of it was still fluffy.
Hope fully I got the Quick Weed before it sent seed out as there was a large patch of it but mostly it was Purslane and some types of grasses that are not a pain in the buttocks like Crab Grass or Quack Grass.
Canadian Thistle was totally gone
and another type of thistle that was becoming a problem in the rose garden was mostly gone.
There was a football shaped patch of Nut Sedge 3 feet long and foot wide I left and poisoned.
As usual it was in a spot in the garden where I over treated three years ago not much grew period so I pretty much left it except for tilling it in spring.
Moon Flowers, Datura, are back and this year I thinned them more, a few Sunflowers came up on the edge of the garden I usually leave but this year pulled those that were fighting with others in the same area.
My squash I planted over a month ago and though were DOA like my corn , well , two of them popped out of the ground, so, with the squash I trans planted I have over six squash plants growing in a large empty area; I even left a few Ground Cherry plants go as where the corn was is a large empty area and they are not fighting for space.
ONE corn stalk came up, SO, technically I was not skunked.
Potatoes in the rose garden are doing VERY well; I lost one more rose but the ones growing look real , real good and the old big guy, that was six feet tall for a long time, I thought it had given up the ghost but one stub cane is now putting out healthy leaves.
I will cut off the last tall cane that was green and now finally died and hopefully, at least kinda-sorta, it is pink and I have no love for pink roses, it will one day return to its former glory.
Last year I had a cherry tree full of cherries, well this year my cousin said I had four nice red ones but when I went out the next morning to pick them , they were gone.
MY neighbor cut down his Walnut Tree so now the squirrels are a bit of a pain, PLUS, that same neighbor used to pop them with his pellet gun and chow down.
I do not miss that , though it was a beautiful, tree as I was digging up Walnut trees continually, but some times a pain in the butt has a positive side you never thought of.
Last time I looked my Choke Cherry Tree was putting out a nice batch so maybe I can make some jelly , or wine , this year.
It is losing it maroon leaf color now and turning green.
It has two trunks and I think I am going to cut one off as it is in and area that had one tree and one lilac bush twenty years ago and now has way too many bushes and trees too close together
I have a Amur Choke Cherry that I am going to cut down. The trunk is now at least ten inches in diameter and it is old enough it is starting to lose the shiny golden bark being replace with plain old fashioned bark.
It is too close to the house and I do not want to have to dicker with branches hitting the roof and the siding of the house.
I put in in about seventeen years ago plus or minus a couple , I got it for free from a closing greenhouse , and in the past three years it has really taken off trunk twice as wide and at least seven feet higher.
After two days of being on hands and knees weeding, I filled two large compost bins the city gives you, one was my neighbors, I took a break yesterday and went on a rode trip taking a friend into the Twin Cities to have his hand operated on again.
Should have kept working as after I drove back up to Sharon's yesterday, at midnight, things I did not get done started popping into my head.
Well I am heading back down home again later this week for some summer events and I will do those then.
