Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Gardening Diary – September 29, 2021

 

Between the back of the original bulb bed and the Rose bed and the Green-headed Coneflower bed.
Picture taken on September 29, 2021.

Weeded around the backs of the original bulb bed and the Rose bed and the front of the Green-headed Coneflower bed which contained many Green-headed Coneflowers.


Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Gardening Diary – September 28, 2021

 

Original bulb bed
Picture taken on September 28, 2021.

Rose bed and Original bulb bed
Picture taken on September 28, 2021.

Sharon continued to weed the original bulb bed and started to weed the Rose bed.

Frog bath bed
Picture taken on September 28, 2021.

Chinese Fringe-Flower
[Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum]
Picture taken on September 28, 2021.

Millennium Allium Ornamental Onions
[Allium ‘Millennium’]
Picture taken on September 28, 2021.

Walkway back of the Rose bed.
Picture taken on September 28, 2021.

Weeded the Frog bath bed, the beds containing the Chinese Fringe-Flower and the Millennium Allium Ornamental Onions and the walkway between the previous beds and the Rose bed.

Deutzia Magician
[Deutzia ‘Magician’]
Picture taken on September 28, 2021.

Noah started to prune the Deutzia Magician.


Friday, September 24, 2021

Gardening Diary – September 24, 2021

 

Double Play Doozie® Spirea
[Spiraea x]
Picture was taken on September 24, 2021.

Back of the original bed.
Picture was taken on September 24, 2021.

Weeded the original bed from the Double Play Doozie® Spirea to the back of the original bed.


Thursday, September 23, 2021

Gardening Diary – September 23, 2021

 

Buddha Belly
[Jatropha podagrica]
Picture taken on September 23, 2021.

As the US National Weather Service Morristown Tennessee had forecast that the low temperature for Knoxville, TN was 48o, we decided to bring the Buddha Belly into the porch.


From the Facebook page for the US National Weather Service Morristown Tennessee:



Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Gardening Diary – September 22, 2021

 

Halloween decorations.
Picture taken on September 22, 2021.

Sharon and I put together our Halloween decorations on the front lawn. We purchased 3 wheat straw bales and 2 Chrysanthemums [Chrysanthemum sp.] from Home Depot and 4 Pumpkins from Aldi’s.

Friday, September 17, 2021

Gardening Diary – September 17, 2021

 

Bulb and Rose beds
Picture taken on September 17, 2021.

Sharon continued to weed the Bulb bed.

Left fence walkway.
Picture taken on September 17, 2021.

Bush bed.
Picture taken on September 17, 2021.

Weed-eated with the “mower” attachment the two walkways on either side of the Bush bed and part of the walkway at the back of the Bush bed.

Pruned some of the bushes and cut down some tall weeds. 

Moved the refuse to the gulley on Dave’s property.


Monday, September 13, 2021

Gardening Diary – September 13, 2021

 

Bulb bed
Picture taken on September 13, 2021.

Sharon resting from weeding the Bulb bed.
Picture taken on September 13, 2021.

Sharon started to weed the Bulb bed.

Walkway along the left side of the Rose bed.
Picture taken on September 13, 2021.

Used the new weed-eater with its “mower” attachment to weed the walkway along the enclosed patio and the left side of the Rose bed.


Friday, September 10, 2021

Gardening Diary – September 10, 2021

 Removed large weeds from the backyard including

American Burnweed
[Erechtites hieraciifolius]
Picture taken on September 10, 2021.

and



Goldenrod
[Solidago sp.]
Pictures taken on September 10, 2021.

These large weeds and fallen limbs were taken to the ditch on Dave’s property.


Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Gardening Diary – September 8, 2021

 

The front porch bed.
Picture taken September 8, 2021.

Spread about 10 2 ft3 bags of pine bark mini-nuggets mulch on the front porch bed.

Sunday, September 5, 2021

Gardening Diary – September 5, 2021

 We harvested the following vegetables:

Black Beauty Eggplant.
[Solanum melongena ‘Black Beauty’]
Picture taken on September 5, 2021.

Yellow Crookneck Squash, Yellow Summer Squash, Zucchini.
[Cucurbita pepo]
Picture taken on September 5, 2021.

Orange Tomatoes
[Solanum lycopersicum]
Picture taken on September 5, 2021.

Tomatoes
[Solanum lycopersicum]
Picture taken on September 5, 2021.

Friday, September 3, 2021

Gardening Diary – September 3, 2021

 

The front porch bed.
Picture taken September 3, 2021.

Weeded the front porch bed and

Right side of front bulb bed.
Picture taken September 3, 2021.

Sharon weeded the right side of the front bulb bed.


Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Gardening Diary – September 1, 2021

 


Chrysanthemums
[Chrysanthemum sp.]
Picture taken September 1, 2021.

Purchased from Aldi’s a set of three pots which can be stacked. Purchased a dozen Chrysanthemums [Chrysanthemum sp.] from Home Depot and planted 9 of these into these pots.


Gardening Diary – April 22, 2025

 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...