Tag: yard

Remember this? We’ve gotten so much better about the whole yard thing since then. Once the patio arrived last year we started getting better.

Adam and I spent the entire weekend prepping all our flowerbeds for the season. And I literally mean the ENTIRE. WEEKEND. Four trips to Lowes, 24 bags of mulch, 19 plants, several bags of soil…you get the idea. We are exhausted, but as of this afternoon it’s done. Now we keep working on the lawn (which took a beating when the patio was built last year), and I’m thinking about growing tomatoes this year. Maybe. I’m not sure, but we’ll see. If Adam helps me build a raised bed for them.

The burning bushes got so big I had to prune them back. I’ve planted 9 more lily plants in the big flowerbed this year, I might add even more. We put a Common Boneset between the bushes, but it’s not too happy there.

I planted a bunch of daylilies in the small flowerbed. We had some tulips come up, but they’re already leaving for the season.

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It’s time again for me to launch my annual full-scale assault on the grass that grows in the front flowerbed. I have no idea how and why this grass grows so persistently, especially since I’ve hardly watered that bed at all this summer (even through the drought). We’ve been so busy keeping the patio alive, so many of those plants are struggling after the drought we had here in NJ at the beginning of July. But the flowers and bushes are doing fine, so I’m working on killing the grass and weeds so that I can then mulch the dickens out of it.

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IMG_2446Is gorgeous for fall! I love it.

The weather is finally starting to feel like October again after a horrible last week of rain and cold. Now it’s back to being the Best Month Ever!

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groundhogThis cute guy lives under those stairs in our backyard. He’s been digging a bigger and bigger whole since spring started (and making a huge dirt pile). Now we’ve found his other hole, a “back door” by our air conditioner unit near the side of the house. And we see a groundhog (possibly him, possibly not) going under the shed in the yard behind ours. He’s building an empire under our yard, so Adam decided today he has got to go. Any suggestions?

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