But first I had to pull up several hundred weeds that have popped up during early spring. My legs and back are going to complain to me about it tomorrow. Thorns, thistles, grasses, dandelions, and all manner of other weeds have landed a foot hold in our front, side and back garden beds. I cleared the front and side, but haven’t the desire, or drive, to also tackle the back yard beds. My wife was out planting six more Dahlias in the back garden. I thought they should go out front, but we focus so much attention there as is, that all the other facets of our property look pretty bare in comparison. And I’m fine with it. Loads of curb appeal when you see the front of the house, and everything else is secondary. I don’t devote that much time to our plants & trees once we get into July & August, so I’m ok with limiting my attention to just the front that is visible to everyone on the street.
Also I haven’t done much fruit wise either. I trimmed back the dead portions of the raspberries and that’s about it. I don’t fuss with the cherry tree or the apple trees beyond making it so that I can cut the grass around them without getting stabbed in the face by low lying limbs. My blueberries died ages ago, killed by freezing over. My grape vine has taken off with a life of it’s own, which I’m fine with. I run it along the fence top when I can train it to do so, but otherwise I’m not doing much of anything with it. The strawberries have claimed one whole bed for themselves amongst the ferns and a now deceased ivy shrub. I wish it got more light or water as we rarely get more than just a quart tub of berries all season from that patch of ground. Mind you I don’t feed them, or water at all
I’d love a couple peach trees, and some pears, or plums too. I like the idea of having our own fruit growing here. Nice to have some food that I’m not paying grocery store prices for. May have difficulty getting my wife on board with us having even more trees on the property. I tried to get a Black Walnut to grow over by my shed, but the neighbours lawn guy cut it down and killed it, even though it was on my property by several feet. Was not impressed. But after saving several other trees very early on in the spring I was less concerned about it. C’est la vie.
I think the farm will be planting new raspberries and blueberries shortly, so maybe I don’t need more here anyway. Very lucky to have access to the land at the farm for doing that sort of thing. Any way, happy friday. Enjoy the long weekend if you get one. Ciao Bella!
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