the little wild kingdom

[flowerbug]

i could get out today and it was nice enough to even break a sweat!

did some weeding and gravel picking out of a garden and buried some chicken bones and a bag of bean pods and then tried to get the poison ivy out of some bushes but i couldn't find any of it at all.

 

[flowerbug]

another bit of weeding and burying bean pods and other worm food in a garden so that is nice to have that space back in my room here. it's almost looking civilized (not really but it is an improvement that i put some box tops and flats away so at least less visible clutter - plenty more still to deal with when i have the gumption).

rains yesterday and last night and cooler out today but i'm quite happy to do some reading and not much else. it was a busy week.

 

[flowerbug]

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.