Weeded most of the Hydrangea bed and the part of the right walkway adjacent to the bed. Most of the weeds were Dead Nettle, Violets and Onions. Planted an Aphrodite Sweetshrub [Calycanthus L. ‘Aphrodite’] at the back of the bed. This plant was ordered from Home Depot and was delivered yesterday.
Watered the plant and, in addition, straw bale beds #7-8.
Watered straw bale beds #7-8.
Put 4 2 ft3 bags of pine bark mini-nuggets on the bed which we planted the Carol Mackie Daphne [Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Carol Mackie’] yesterday.
Finished weeding of the Sunny Knock Out Roses bed and covered the weeded area with 1 bag of pine bark mini-nuggets.
Finished weeding of the Purple Smoke Bush bed.
Went to Home Depot and bought 10 2 ft3 bags of pine bark mini-nugget mulch.
Using a spade, was able to lift the Hosta plant that was in the Flowering Cherry bed.
Weeded this bed; the bed had a significant number of Violets and Bermuda Grass roots.
Planted a Carol Mackie Daphne [Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Carol Mackie’] in the same place from which the Hosta was removed.
This plant was obtained from Kirby Nursery.
Took 6 bags of weeds to the Knox County dump.
Saw some Violets in the 2 Pink Muhly Grass beds and the Serviceberry bed; removed these.
Continued weeding of the Sunny Knockout Rose bed near the Purple Smoke Bush bed and added 2 bags of pine bark mini nuggets mulch to this area.
Started weeding of the Daffodil bed.
Continued to weed the Sunny Knock Out Rose bed. Mulched a significant part of the latter bed with pine bark mini nuggets mulch.
Placed a 1 ft3 bag of Vigoro All-Purpose Garden Soil on each back, front of Straw Bale Bed #8 and the front of Straw Bale Bed #7.
Sharon planted Burpees’s Oregon Sugar Pod II Peas in straw bale bed #8 and Ferry-Morse’s Icicle Short Top Radish seeds in the front part of straw bale bed #7.
While Sharon was planting, I set up the GreenStalk vertical planter which we had purchased last year.
Continued weeding the Purple Smoke Bush bed and spread out bags of pine bark mini nuggets mulch on most of the bed.
Sprayed Ortho GroundClear Weed and Grass Killer on the area between the mulch and the grass or the road. Was worried that the temperature was too low for the herbicide to work; however about an hour later, the weeds appeared to be dead. As this herbicide does not kill the roots of the weeds, we’ll use Ortho GroundClear Super Weed and Grass Killer1 in the future.
Started weeding the Sunny Knock Out Rose bed.
Completed weeding and mulching the front bulb bed on the left side of the old Holly bush. Used all of the bags of mulch which I had originally allotted to cover the Daffodil bed.
Then, moved to the Purple Smoke Bush bed and started to weed.
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Completed adding pine bark mini-nuggets mulch to the 2 Pink Muhly beds and
around the Serviceberry [Amelanchier sp.].
Started to put pine bark mini-nuggets mulch on the front bulb bed. Had to remove a few weeds that had grown since I last weeded this bed. Most of the weeds were onions. Approximately half of this bed to the left of the old Holly bush was covered.
For the last day of preparing the straw bales, fertilized all the straw bales using Alaska Morbloom Fertilizer (0-10-10). On all but two of the straw bales, used 1 cup of this fertilizer in a gallon of water on 1 straw bale; on each of the last 2 straw bales, had available only 1/2 cup of this fertilizer in a gallon of water.
Went to the front yard to work on the Diane With Hazel [Hamamelis × intermedia ‘Diane’]. On March 18 of last year, remove part of a sucker of this plant. Unfortunately, the sucker was too close to rest of the plant to completely remove the sucker. As a result, there was a lot of growth from the sucker which is seen in the photo (left above) as the tall branches in the middle.
Removed these branches.
Weeded around this plant and covered the center area with 2 bags of pine bark mini-nuggets mulch.
For the second day in a row, continued with weeding and spreading black mulch on the front bulb bed and it started to rain! Additional phot...
