What does your To-Do List look like? Do you have to weed? Thin those exuberant seedlings? Cut back overachieving ground cover? Remove volunteer saplings?
Here is my To-Do List:
1. Weed. Get Rid of the Wild Morning Glories!
These are horrible weeds that wind themselves around my cotoneasters. They are amazing difficult to get rid of and you need to either pull them from the root or use a weed spray.
Weed Me! Wild Morning Glory
2. Chop down the volunteer saplings.
The stone-covered sections around the house have several volunteer trees that need to GO! The yellow thing on the left is a trap for Japanese beetles that ate their way through the fruit trees last summer. We wanted to get ahead of them this year.
3. Prune the bushes.
My cotoneasters are growing well – very, very well – this year. They need to be shaped.
Prune Me! Remove Me!
4. Water Me!
I’ll post pictures of our planters as they grow this year. This one won’t grow at all if I don’t water it NOW!
Water Me! Planter by Fountain
5. Did you see the nasty water in the fountain behind the planter? Yuck!
Planter with Scummy Fountain Water
6. This last one is more for Dave than me, but it is the lawn, or what passes for a lawn in the back of the fenced yard. The water sprinkler system does not reach the back 30 feet or so of our fenced-in section and last summer’s brutal heat and drought killed off most of the grass. Of course the weeds survived.
What a Yucky Lawn!
I love gardening. I don’t love weeding in a cloud of bugs and I don’t love thinning plants. But I love seeing something beautiful grow from dirt, and love picking flowers, and love nurturing my little seedlings and helping them grow. Gardening is one of the most creative activities we can do and it’s worth the occasional chore.
What is on your To-Do List?
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