After a month and a half of weekends, the new raised garden beds / retaining wall is complete. We've even got some things planted. More will go in if we can ever get a good stretch of warm weather.
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| Probably going to be watermelon or cucumbers |
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250 Strawberry plants.
Irish Woman and Boo harvested a few berries from the plants that were
transplanted from the old bed |
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| Carrots are sprouting |
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| Tomatoes will probably go here |
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Onions are coming along well.
The other side of the bed will be either cucumbers or watermelon |
Our fruit trees are doing OK. Some are doing better than others. We had hopes for another great harvest of cherries, but we had a false spring and even with draping canvas and such around the trees at night, we didn't have very many cherries out of a whole lot of blooms.
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| It's a good year for peaches |
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| and grapes |
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| Not such a good year for cherries |
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Our big cherry tree
It was covered in blooms, but has very few cherries on it |
We also cleaned up a couple of the beds in the front of the house. It's amazing what a shovel, a rake, a few yards of weed barrier, and some mulch can do.
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| I saved some volunteer flowers and sunflower plants when I put down barrier and mulch |
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| 24 hours ago, this was overgrown with weeds |
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Two new peach trees
It's also a great year for tiger lillies |
We are definitely going to have to thin and split the tiger lillies next spring. They are taking over. They grow wild here, so any place you give them a little cultivation and attention they run rampant.
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The tiger lilly thicket
In a couple of months, you won't be able to see the house through all the orange |
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| The false spring that hurt our cherry crop also burned some of the shrubs |
We have a few critters in the yard.
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Old Mr. Frog is slowly becoming one with the earth
We've had him as long as we've had the house |
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| A giraffe finds his way out of the jungle |
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The Giraffe was done by YardBirds
We have a few of their sculptures scattered around the yard.
Once I get the tiger lillies under control, maybe I'll find them. |
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Not all of our landscaping is edible.
Some of it is just pretty |
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We started out with one yucca, which Irish Woman unsuccessfully tried to kill
We now have 12
I keep them around because they remind me of Arizona |
