USDA Zone 9a
Journals (45)
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We’ve made a start on creating two no-dig/lasagna beds. The constituents are a layer of cardboard, a layer of coir, a layer of horseshit, a layer of semi-rotted straw, more horseshit, and more straw. Both beds – they are small, 1m by 1.6m – are aligned vaguely east-west, so one ...This entry is about Trixtah's Yass Vegetable garden.
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I’ve worked in the back garden for well over two hours the last few days: (1) clearing up after the neighbour’s chopping down all those overhanging leylandii. (2) the first digging! I dug over about a square yard of the shady area where I hope to create a seating space, which was gre...This entry is about Karmacat's Back garden.
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It didn’t matter, in the end, how much water I gave these poor things. 106F is just to much for a plant and with the wind lately its like living in a convection oven. RIP garden.This entry is about Coyclayton's Balcony Zen Garden garden.
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I was out taking photos of work I’ve done recently just this morning – my beloved American cousin in New Jersey hadn’t quite realised how overgrown it all was, and I think I’ve horrified her now. What I’ve done this week is clip the overgrowth around the bases of th...
This entry is about Karmacat's Front garden.
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My neighbour's leylandii hedge
He’s cutting it down! He didn’t plant it, but he’s never trimmed it – he tried, last year, but did it with a chain saw and almost lost 3 fingers on one hand. Now he’s recovered, he’s gone at them again with a manual saw, bless him, and a huge chunk of my ga...This entry is about Karmacat's Back garden.
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Yet more cutting back along the path
Says it, really! I’ve also cleared the overgrown cotoneaster around one of the supports of the handrail, since the whole structure needs to be sanded and painted, its going a little bit rusty. I’ve also created a bit more space between the two overgrown bits, its definitely lookin...This entry is about Karmacat's Front garden.
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Spent about three quarters of an hour at the back through the last two days, doing the same as usual – pulling weeds and seeds out, chopping bits up for the rubbish. Blissfully, however, I also did a few minutes of unthreading-the-bindweed(?)-from-the-lavender, which is what I did last y...
This entry is about Karmacat's Back garden.
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Spent half an hour this afternoon doing some more clearing away of the front path – I’ve trained the cotoneaster to grow up the vertical part of the steps, but of course it gets unruly and pushes over the top, so I spend quite a lot of time pruning it. I obviously haven’t bee...
This entry is about Karmacat's Front garden.
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Out there again last night for about 45 minutes – still not doing any digging, embarrassingly enough, just pulling up lightly rooted plants and dead grass with my bare hands. I made enough progress so that I managed to make contact with the lavenders I planted last year, which are huge, bu...
This entry is about Karmacat's Back garden.
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Again, I’ve worked in the front garden twice this week, clipping things back – ivy and snowberries mainly, as well as clearing the dead ox-eye daisy stalks. I’ve discovered quite how big the ants nest in the middle of the front garden has become – I’ll need to cha...
This entry is about Karmacat's Front garden.
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