My mother and I went out with intentions to deadhead the rose bushes for a few minutes in the shady part of the yard, and ended up cleaning the knee high weeds out of the playhouse flowe r bed instead. Only took us about forty minutes and looks so much better. The old rugs we laid out there earlier in the summer for weed control worked wonders, but rotted away when we touched them. A few minutes with a sharp hoe will take care of the smaller weeds.
I bought some potted mums at work, and plunked them out there for some fall color. The iceberg rose is going to bloom one more time before frost, but that garden bed is pretty much done for the year. My compost bin is full too, so a win-win all around!
I also took apart one of the two empty bee hives and laid the boxes in the sun to air. The moles have dug under the hive stands, and it was leaning precariously. One of my vacation projects will be to scrub it out and disinfect it for new bees next spring.
