Weeds be gone!
This morning I went to a bridal shower for one of my high school friends. She is the last of all my HS friends to get married. Now I am the lone single girl. oh well. It was a pretty low key event. I bought her the Apples to Apples party game and two other card games and a crap load of junk food (chips, licorice, chocolate, soda, etc..) and put it in a laundry basket. The laundry basket and games were on her registry, so at least I knew it was something she wanted. I weaved ribbon through the slats on the basket since it was too big to wrap.
After the shower I came home and went to work on weeding my flower beds. Imagine looking at the front of my house. I have two flower beds in front, one on either side of the deck. The one on the left side wraps around and goes all the way down the side of my house along the drive way. There used to be one down the right side of my house as well, but now it's all overgrown with some kind of ivy and I've just left it. The front flower bed on the right side of my house is probably about 4ft by 3ft and the one on the left is about 6ft by 3ft. On top of all that I also have a flower bed that runs the entire width of my front yard, from the driveway all the way to the fence on the other side of the yard and one more small one on the other side of the driveway. Confused? yeah, anyway, it's just a lot of flower beds! Weeding the first time of the year is always the hardest, but what else can you do?
I spent about three hours out there and just got the big 6x3 one done. My yard is notorious for getting those crappy weeds that grow the goat head thorns. They were EVERYWHERE in that bed! I'm glad I got to it now before the thorns had fully grown and scattered all over. I got poked a few times. I'm going to need to get all the others done ASAP. I even had weeds trying to grow up through my tulips and irises. ugh. At least they can breath now and they are starting to come up so I'm excited to see them :) I've got more buds this year than last too. I love bulbs. I love that they come back every year and they reproduce so I can spread them out into more places. I'm not sure how often to do that though. This is only their second growing season, so should I do it this fall or wait one more year? Or should it be done every year?
I think I'll need to work on one bed each night this week and next weekend I'll need to get some fertilizer and mulch down. I'm not very good at gardening, but hopefully I'll do a better job at it this year than last. The one downside to being out in the sun all that time today? I got a sunburn. But not just any sunburn. I was wearing long sleeves and pants so everything was covered. What I didn't account for was that I would be bending down and my shirt would ride up in the back, so I now have a burn on my lower back. Yup, you guessed it, I have a tramp stamp from the sun. It actually hurts quite a bit, to be honest.
After the shower I came home and went to work on weeding my flower beds. Imagine looking at the front of my house. I have two flower beds in front, one on either side of the deck. The one on the left side wraps around and goes all the way down the side of my house along the drive way. There used to be one down the right side of my house as well, but now it's all overgrown with some kind of ivy and I've just left it. The front flower bed on the right side of my house is probably about 4ft by 3ft and the one on the left is about 6ft by 3ft. On top of all that I also have a flower bed that runs the entire width of my front yard, from the driveway all the way to the fence on the other side of the yard and one more small one on the other side of the driveway. Confused? yeah, anyway, it's just a lot of flower beds! Weeding the first time of the year is always the hardest, but what else can you do?
I spent about three hours out there and just got the big 6x3 one done. My yard is notorious for getting those crappy weeds that grow the goat head thorns. They were EVERYWHERE in that bed! I'm glad I got to it now before the thorns had fully grown and scattered all over. I got poked a few times. I'm going to need to get all the others done ASAP. I even had weeds trying to grow up through my tulips and irises. ugh. At least they can breath now and they are starting to come up so I'm excited to see them :) I've got more buds this year than last too. I love bulbs. I love that they come back every year and they reproduce so I can spread them out into more places. I'm not sure how often to do that though. This is only their second growing season, so should I do it this fall or wait one more year? Or should it be done every year?
I think I'll need to work on one bed each night this week and next weekend I'll need to get some fertilizer and mulch down. I'm not very good at gardening, but hopefully I'll do a better job at it this year than last. The one downside to being out in the sun all that time today? I got a sunburn. But not just any sunburn. I was wearing long sleeves and pants so everything was covered. What I didn't account for was that I would be bending down and my shirt would ride up in the back, so I now have a burn on my lower back. Yup, you guessed it, I have a tramp stamp from the sun. It actually hurts quite a bit, to be honest.