Phew!
Lavender staked up (yay! So much more open!).
Rose pruned back like WHOA. (She only bit me once. Hopefully she'll forgive me, and maybe even grow more central than forward).
Mystery plant unburied. The sign said "Basil" but we knew better, so it was just ripped out. The cage and sign and root barrier ring were pulled and put in the appropriate piles.
Plum tree pruned back fairly aggressively, including removing limbs damaged by abrasion in storms and/or beetle damage. Here's hoping that cuts back on the Japanese beetle population.
Lavender trimmings and other pulled weeds mowed with the electric mower, including cutting back all the oxalis in the yard, to provide a well mixed bunch of trimmings for the compost pile (thanks to the hubby, who did all the mowing and compost piling, including adding some extra water to help it along) while preventing the weeds from bolting and sending out seed.
The rose pruning pile will be cut down on Monday and put in the trash (the city specifically requests it not go in the green bin as roses are so prone to carrying fungus and other nasties, and thus I don't compost them either. Perhaps if I had a shredder...). The plum clippings will be dealt with on Monday, but they'll either go in the compost or the green bin, depending on how vigorously I'm capable of trimming them down.
The kidlet was returned to us already asleep (you didn't think we got all this accomplished with a preschooler underfoot, did you?!) - very convenient.
Two batches of acorn flour in the oven drying - one in its first phase, the other already ground.
Rose pruned back like WHOA. (She only bit me once. Hopefully she'll forgive me, and maybe even grow more central than forward).
Mystery plant unburied. The sign said "Basil" but we knew better, so it was just ripped out. The cage and sign and root barrier ring were pulled and put in the appropriate piles.
Plum tree pruned back fairly aggressively, including removing limbs damaged by abrasion in storms and/or beetle damage. Here's hoping that cuts back on the Japanese beetle population.
Lavender trimmings and other pulled weeds mowed with the electric mower, including cutting back all the oxalis in the yard, to provide a well mixed bunch of trimmings for the compost pile (thanks to the hubby, who did all the mowing and compost piling, including adding some extra water to help it along) while preventing the weeds from bolting and sending out seed.
The rose pruning pile will be cut down on Monday and put in the trash (the city specifically requests it not go in the green bin as roses are so prone to carrying fungus and other nasties, and thus I don't compost them either. Perhaps if I had a shredder...). The plum clippings will be dealt with on Monday, but they'll either go in the compost or the green bin, depending on how vigorously I'm capable of trimming them down.
The kidlet was returned to us already asleep (you didn't think we got all this accomplished with a preschooler underfoot, did you?!) - very convenient.
Two batches of acorn flour in the oven drying - one in its first phase, the other already ground.