Gardening Diary – July 31, 2020

 Weed-eated the walkway along the back of the house and the walkway along the Hydrangea bed.

Gardening Diary – July 29, 2020

Gardening Diary – July 27, 2020

 Removed the bird screens off of raised beds #5 and #6.

Weedeated the walkways in the back bed and the walkway between the back bed and the raised beds #1-4.

Gardening Diary – July 22, 2020

 Finished getting rid of the Woodland Sunflowers [Helianthus divaricatus] that were in the front of the right side of the back bed.

Removed one of the Azalea [Rhododendron sp.] bushes in the right front side of the back bed. This bush had died during the past winter.

Continued to weed the area of the bed to the left of the Dappled Willow [Salix integra ‘Hakuro Nishiki’] in the back bed.

Gardening Diary – July 20, 2020

 Continued to cut down the Woodland Sunflowers [Helianthus divaricatus] that were in the walkway and the front of the right side of the back bed.

Moved some of the rocks along the latter walkway to widen the walkway.

Watered the raised beds.

Gardening Diary – July 17, 2020

 Continued to cut down the Woodland Sunflowers [Helianthus divaricatus] that were in the walkway and the front of the right side of the back bed.

Moved some of the rocks along the latter walkway to widen the walkway.

Watered the raised beds.

Gardening Diary – July 15, 2020

Continued to clean the back bed and used the weedeater to clear some areas.

Watered the raised beds.

Gardening Diary – July 13, 2020

 Moved the cut down Pokeweeds [Phytolacca americana] and supposed Goldenrod [Solidago sp.] to an area in the back of the back bed. Hoping that this would be an area for mulching.

Continued to clean the back bed.

Sharon weeded around the Mediteranean Pink Heather [Erica x darleyensis ‘Mediterranean Pink’] in the back right side of the back bed.

Watered the raised beds.

Trellis to back bed.

Picture taken on July 15, 2020.

Noah removed the Virginia Creeper [Parthenocissus quinquefolia] that was on the trellis on the back bed.

Gardening Diary – July 11, 2020

 Sprayed ORTHO Groundclear on weeds in the Fern bed, part of the bed next to the right fence, the Morning Glory vines in the original bed, and the area in the right back side of the garden.

Watered the raised beds and the Strawberry tower.

Weed-eated part of the walkway in front of the left side of the back bed, the 2 walkways on either side of the bush bed and part of the walkway on the left side of the Tier bed.

Moved some of the branches pruned from the bush bed to the back bed.

Need to remove the fencing that was installed on the left side of the Tier bed.

Gardening Diary – July 10, 2020

 

Walkway at back of porch.

Picture taken on July 10, 2020.

Weed-eated the walkways on the sides of the 2^nd bulb bed and the Hydrangea bed, the walkway along the back porch, Lenten Rose bed and Butterfly Bush bed, the walkway along the right side of the house.

Gardening Diary – July 8, 2020

 Sharon pruned the Chinese Fringe-Flower [Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum].

Sharon started on weeding the Rose bed.

Cleaned up the area around the bench in front of the left side of the back bed.

We harvested some Cucumbers and Zucchini.

Gardening Diary – July 6, 2020

 In the back bed, cut down a bunch of Pokeweeds [Phytolacca americana] and plants that I believe are Goldenrod [Solidago sp.].

Moved a bunch of fallen branches to the back of the back bed.

Gardening Diary – July 3, 2020

 

Sharon’s harvesting.

Pictures taken on July 3, 2020.

Sharon harvested Cucumbers, Squash and Zucchini from the raised beds.

Gardening Diary – July 2, 2020

 Weed-eated the walkway between the original bed and the bulb bed, part of the walkway in front of the left side of the back bed, the walkway in front of the right side of the back bed, part of the walkway on the other side of the raised beds #1-4 and part of the back bed.

Did some weeding of the back bed.