stubbed toes and mud pies

i was able to get outside today for a while. weeded, picked gravel out of the dirt, buried some bean pods and bones from a roasted chicken for a while and then went and tried to find the poison ivy in some bushes - could not find it at all.

i actually sweated a little. <horror>
 
sweated some more today. i'm going to wilt this summer... 77F already... after rains today and tonight cooling off to 51F for tomorrow and not too bad for this week.

also got to see first bumblebee. :) i'm sure they've been out before it's just that i've not been out that much yet meself...
 
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two days of good enough weather to get outside as much as my body can take. plenty of projects to choose from and things to get ready for the season.

i think today i'll get the north garden scraped and weeded as much as i can get done. i have the garlic in there to work around which will slow things down for part of it but i don't have to do everything in one day.

the edges are in pretty good shape except for the north edge along the grass which constantly gets invaded and weedy, but the two thyme ground covers are doing their jobs in smothering there and i hope it will keep spreading... where they grow a lot of weeds don't but i still do have to weed them here or there. the taller thyme grows faster but i'd like the lower growing thyme to take over more of the space so i need to trim some of the taller back a few times a season to let the lower growing thyme spread more.

the east edge is more work than i want it to be with some Creeping Jenny that i'm trying to replace with the lower growing thyme. the CJ does help keep other weeds from having it easy in that space but it isn't working as well as the thyme does so i'm going to keep trimming and removing it and encouraging the thyme to completely take over instead. weeding CJ out of the thyme is not easy as i'd hoped but eventually it will get done.
 
digitS' said:
"Jenny"

not Charlie, not Bindweed.

Yellow flowers in her hair, right?
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yes. :) i planted it in the lowest growing area where water can collect at times. unfortunately it gets some bugs in it (small grayish catepillars) and it spreads too much into the upwards areas where the creeping thyme is at, plus it is harder to weed and hides weeds too much.
 
north garden did get partially weeded and scraped. considering it has been ignored for several months it is not too bad but there is a huge number of what looks like to me like clover sprouts coming up. the garden has had various patches of clover in it before so this wouldn't be a surprise but why this much this year i dunno... that it also happens to be all through the garlic planting is going to make some weeding tricky and more time consuming than i'd normally have to deal with but oh well...

i went out expecting to be there perhaps a half hour to an hour but managed almost two hours so i'm doing a little bit better than i expected but i don't expect much the first few weeks of gardening season. not only do you have to harden off your plants you gotta get your bod hardened off.

purple violet blooming near the weed pile. :)
 
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