rswyan
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- Joined
- May 12, 2004
- Messages
- 11,418
- Location
- Northeast Ohio
- Tractor
- Kubota B2910, Cub Cadet Pro Z 154S, Simplicity 18 CFC, Cub Cadet 782
75F and partly cloudy @ 22:00, heading down to a low of 67F for the overnight.
Just fed fish ...
Bird feeders did not get filled today ...
Did do some banking (thankfully from home ...)
Went over and scoped out neighbor's project and gave her a number, she said proceed ... so that will be on the agenda at some point later in the week, once it dries up some.
After that ran down to the PO to drop off some Menards rebates to be sent in.
When we got home we started working on prepping that east planting bed. I got most of it tilled up with the cultivator head on the Stihl FS 66 and then brought down around 5 or 6 buckets of screened compost and laid it in:
While I was doing that The Woman used the loppers to cut down that invasive shrub behind the bed that seems to grow everywhere around here, exposing a decent stand of volunteer pachysandra:
Hopefully with less competition, it will fill in more. But I'll have a whole lot more available from the west side of the house if it doesn't ...
Took two loads from there like this up to the burn pile:
This is the leaves and (unripe) berries/seeds of that shrub:
The berries turn a dark purple when mature, and are almost all pit/seed.
The stump ends in where the pachysandra are growing will all get dosed with a syringe with RM18 brushkiller in it tomorrow, and the area where there isn't any pachysandra growing (yet) will just get sprayed.
After that we did some work cleaning up around the dying maple and redbud tree:
Got a good start on getting that cleaned up, still a lot more to do as far as clean up and pruning ... but at least I can (almost) mow around it. One bucketload to the compost pile on that.
Bonus: found (at least) two volunteer 2' high redbuds growing over near the maple, a $60 dollar value. Just need to transplant them ...
Removed two large dead maple limbs one had fallen all the way down and the other was still attached about 20' up. Tied a rope to the end and pulled it down with the Kubota. Between the redbud and the maple a couple of trips to the burn pile with debris.
At that point it was around 19:30, it was starting to get dark due to being overcast, I hadn't eaten all day, and we were both tired ... so we called it a day.
Reasonable amount accomplished, given how late it was when we got started.
Need to finish up new Menards order and get it placed, need more peat moss, composted cow manure, and probably order some more lime to hit the lawn again. Sunflower and safflower seeds for the birds.
Hope everyone had a great day ...
Just fed fish ...
Bird feeders did not get filled today ...
Did do some banking (thankfully from home ...
)Went over and scoped out neighbor's project and gave her a number, she said proceed ... so that will be on the agenda at some point later in the week, once it dries up some.
After that ran down to the PO to drop off some Menards rebates to be sent in.
When we got home we started working on prepping that east planting bed. I got most of it tilled up with the cultivator head on the Stihl FS 66 and then brought down around 5 or 6 buckets of screened compost and laid it in:
While I was doing that The Woman used the loppers to cut down that invasive shrub behind the bed that seems to grow everywhere around here, exposing a decent stand of volunteer pachysandra:
Hopefully with less competition, it will fill in more. But I'll have a whole lot more available from the west side of the house if it doesn't ...
Took two loads from there like this up to the burn pile:
This is the leaves and (unripe) berries/seeds of that shrub:
The berries turn a dark purple when mature, and are almost all pit/seed.
The stump ends in where the pachysandra are growing will all get dosed with a syringe with RM18 brushkiller in it tomorrow, and the area where there isn't any pachysandra growing (yet) will just get sprayed.
After that we did some work cleaning up around the dying maple and redbud tree:
Got a good start on getting that cleaned up, still a lot more to do as far as clean up and pruning ... but at least I can (almost) mow around it. One bucketload to the compost pile on that.
Bonus: found (at least) two volunteer 2' high redbuds growing over near the maple, a $60 dollar value. Just need to transplant them ...
Removed two large dead maple limbs one had fallen all the way down and the other was still attached about 20' up. Tied a rope to the end and pulled it down with the Kubota. Between the redbud and the maple a couple of trips to the burn pile with debris.
At that point it was around 19:30, it was starting to get dark due to being overcast, I hadn't eaten all day, and we were both tired ... so we called it a day.
Reasonable amount accomplished, given how late it was when we got started.
Need to finish up new Menards order and get it placed, need more peat moss, composted cow manure, and probably order some more lime to hit the lawn again. Sunflower and safflower seeds for the birds.
Hope everyone had a great day ...
