Gardening, Exploring, Storing
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livingdebThis morning I did 90 minutes of gardening. Very productive.
1) I weeded the rose area. I recently cleaned out this area, but already millions of tiny weeds were growing there. Still easy to pull out. I also did some final pruning on the roses. A small pink rose was blooming.
2) At this time of year, the beggar's lice is coming in. This is a beautiful feathery plant with lots of lovely white flowers that turn into billions of tiny burs. I got rid of all I could find in the side yard and front yard.
3) A few specimens of a bright green extremely sticky weed that also like to take over each spring were starting to pop up; I cleared those from the same area.
4) I got rid of the bad kind of dandelion. There appear to be two kinds of dandelions growing in my yard. One appears to have adapted to lawnmowers. It flowers very low to the ground, then it grows to a foot tall just when it gets to the wispy white seeding stage. The flowers are a nice bright yellow, and the leaves are relatively smooth. I love this plucky plant and have decided to let it stay.
The other kind is a tall flower with large, prickly leaves. I've decided I don't want to let that one seed. It's not easy to yank out of the ground, so I ended up just breaking most of them off near the ground. We'll see if that works.
5) I pulled up the two giant (8-foot tall?) sunflower stalks from last year and laid them out next to backyard fence, where I hope the seeds will plant themselves. I think they would grow well and look good there.
6) I transplanted two plants that look like new sunflowers of this same kind from my flower box, where they appeared and where there is no room to get as tall as they do to more appropriate parts of the yard. Last time I tried this, they just shriveled up and died, but this time I got them while they were still young, so maybe that will work.
7) I discovered that the really pretty clover with the pretty bright yellow flowers is the same plant that makes the hard brown burs. I didn't have the heart to yank out very many of these. Plus they're not easy to get out.
8) Attempted and failed to dig out a young tree growing in my flower box. Will just have to cut it off below the soil level and hope that works.
9) Planted the six-pack of begonias I bought last week in the planter. Yea! One fun thing.
Right now the day flowers(?) are blooming. These are plants that grow one or two feet high and then put out several blossoms that are about an inch in diameter. Mine are either purple or magenta. Some people think they are weeds, probably because they grow taller than grass. And some people think they are nice native wildflowers. I'm going with the wildflower theory. They even transplant well. I've actually got a bunch around my backyard pond now and a bunch next to the driveway.
Then I went with my sister and a couple of her friends to scout out possible locations for her wedding and reception. Two are adjacent state parks in Bastrop in the area known as the "Lost Pines." This means that even though most of the piney woods in our state are along the east coast, there is this one little island of them easy driving distance (45 minutes?) from town. I love the smell of pine needles.
I took some pictures and learned to get them onto my computer and started learning how to work with iPhoto. Finally. Next, I need to learn how to upload them to the internet, probably onto Flickr. (The three people I know of who put photos online all use Flickr.)
Mostly I've just been sitting. The backs of my legs are telling me they're going to ache tomorrow from all the weeding. I didn't do laundry or cook or go grocery shopping or go to thrift stores (I need pants!). I sure didn't go dancing! I watched a movie. And I found the site below, which could probably keep me entertained for a full month of all-day exercise-free fun!
Web site of the day: the second annual smallest, coolest apartment contest 2006 by apartment therapy. A bunch of people with small apartments have submitted entries showing how they have used good design to make their tiny spaces livable. Even if you don't care about small spaces and exciting storage solutions, if you like to see pretty colored walls and interesting furniture, you might like this site.
1) I weeded the rose area. I recently cleaned out this area, but already millions of tiny weeds were growing there. Still easy to pull out. I also did some final pruning on the roses. A small pink rose was blooming.
2) At this time of year, the beggar's lice is coming in. This is a beautiful feathery plant with lots of lovely white flowers that turn into billions of tiny burs. I got rid of all I could find in the side yard and front yard.
3) A few specimens of a bright green extremely sticky weed that also like to take over each spring were starting to pop up; I cleared those from the same area.
4) I got rid of the bad kind of dandelion. There appear to be two kinds of dandelions growing in my yard. One appears to have adapted to lawnmowers. It flowers very low to the ground, then it grows to a foot tall just when it gets to the wispy white seeding stage. The flowers are a nice bright yellow, and the leaves are relatively smooth. I love this plucky plant and have decided to let it stay.
The other kind is a tall flower with large, prickly leaves. I've decided I don't want to let that one seed. It's not easy to yank out of the ground, so I ended up just breaking most of them off near the ground. We'll see if that works.
5) I pulled up the two giant (8-foot tall?) sunflower stalks from last year and laid them out next to backyard fence, where I hope the seeds will plant themselves. I think they would grow well and look good there.
6) I transplanted two plants that look like new sunflowers of this same kind from my flower box, where they appeared and where there is no room to get as tall as they do to more appropriate parts of the yard. Last time I tried this, they just shriveled up and died, but this time I got them while they were still young, so maybe that will work.
7) I discovered that the really pretty clover with the pretty bright yellow flowers is the same plant that makes the hard brown burs. I didn't have the heart to yank out very many of these. Plus they're not easy to get out.
8) Attempted and failed to dig out a young tree growing in my flower box. Will just have to cut it off below the soil level and hope that works.
9) Planted the six-pack of begonias I bought last week in the planter. Yea! One fun thing.
Right now the day flowers(?) are blooming. These are plants that grow one or two feet high and then put out several blossoms that are about an inch in diameter. Mine are either purple or magenta. Some people think they are weeds, probably because they grow taller than grass. And some people think they are nice native wildflowers. I'm going with the wildflower theory. They even transplant well. I've actually got a bunch around my backyard pond now and a bunch next to the driveway.
Then I went with my sister and a couple of her friends to scout out possible locations for her wedding and reception. Two are adjacent state parks in Bastrop in the area known as the "Lost Pines." This means that even though most of the piney woods in our state are along the east coast, there is this one little island of them easy driving distance (45 minutes?) from town. I love the smell of pine needles.
I took some pictures and learned to get them onto my computer and started learning how to work with iPhoto. Finally. Next, I need to learn how to upload them to the internet, probably onto Flickr. (The three people I know of who put photos online all use Flickr.)
Mostly I've just been sitting. The backs of my legs are telling me they're going to ache tomorrow from all the weeding. I didn't do laundry or cook or go grocery shopping or go to thrift stores (I need pants!). I sure didn't go dancing! I watched a movie. And I found the site below, which could probably keep me entertained for a full month of all-day exercise-free fun!
Web site of the day: the second annual smallest, coolest apartment contest 2006 by apartment therapy. A bunch of people with small apartments have submitted entries showing how they have used good design to make their tiny spaces livable. Even if you don't care about small spaces and exciting storage solutions, if you like to see pretty colored walls and interesting furniture, you might like this site.
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Tiny houses
on 2006-04-02 08:11 pm (UTC)