and now it's fall...
Oct. 12th, 2025 02:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkfrost on Thursday morning when I went out to do morning chores. The soybean field behind the house has been harvested -- it's been brown for a few weeks, but there were lots of fields to do. The birdbath has been dry every morning for the last couple of weeks, and I suspect that the deer have been drinking out of it. (It's easier than drinking out of the pond, which they'll also do.) There's a lot of cruft left on the south side of the pond where J yanked an evergreen early in the summer, but much of it is too well established for me to pull.
I got strawberries moved last weekend. I need to water them again -- we did get some rain, but we're still way behind, and I want them to be established enough that they'll survive the winter.
I wrenched my back last Sunday yanking out a clover plant. Sigh. I should know better. In my defense, it probably would have been fine except that I'd spent Saturday afternoon moving other plants. Today, it's mostly better, so I need to go out with the garden scissors and cut back things in the East garden which is looking awfully overgrown at the moment.
I have decided that I'm going to wait to redeem my birthday plants until spring, when there is a better selection of shade tolerant perennials. (Discovered a new native plant nursery just up the road, so they'll probably get some business too.) I have a couple of gardens that have shifted to much more shade than expected, so I need to shift the plantings.
I got strawberries moved last weekend. I need to water them again -- we did get some rain, but we're still way behind, and I want them to be established enough that they'll survive the winter.
I wrenched my back last Sunday yanking out a clover plant. Sigh. I should know better. In my defense, it probably would have been fine except that I'd spent Saturday afternoon moving other plants. Today, it's mostly better, so I need to go out with the garden scissors and cut back things in the East garden which is looking awfully overgrown at the moment.
I have decided that I'm going to wait to redeem my birthday plants until spring, when there is a better selection of shade tolerant perennials. (Discovered a new native plant nursery just up the road, so they'll probably get some business too.) I have a couple of gardens that have shifted to much more shade than expected, so I need to shift the plantings.
