The weather has turned. It was super nice up through Caturday, since then, cool, windy, rainy and maybe a bit of frost to come really soon.
Mum has started to clear out the deaded plants in the garden. She worked on Friday when it was super nice out. She got two sides of the house done, plus part of the big garden as well.
Here is the back of the metal monster all full of stuff. Mum even tossed in one of the mums that is well past its prime blooms.
A few of the branches were so long they stuck up near where mum has to sit to drive. But she safely made it to the compost place with all of the stuff. She hopes to get more done today!
That is all of this week. Stay warm. Love, Virginger, Glimmer, Trooper and Fleur.
Great job mum!
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Sydney, Australia
Your human sure worked hard on all that. There was so much garden in that thing she hardly had room to drive it!
ReplyDeleteWe bet she's glad she doesn't have to juggle all this gardening with work any more!
ReplyDeleteThe garden-closing time is allus sad. We have a few weeks ta go, but we know it is coming. The pole beans died this week and TBT got the last of the cucumbers off the dying vines today. Some flowers are frost-tolerant and will bloom for a couple more weeks. After that, he will snip off the seed heads and let them dry in the cool basement until the first freeze. Then he will rub them all together into a pail.
ReplyDeleteWhen the last flowers go dry, he wil cut them all to ground level and spread the dried seeds all around the beds. Most of them are supposed to be "self-sowing" so he hopes they will grow more flowers next year.
We have some of the same plants (mums, butterfly bush). Mom cleaned out the veggie beds last weekend and trimmed a few plants. We still have a few weeks before we can do hard pruning.
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