Two-Day Jobs

Tom works quite vigorously most days out in the yard. In the last few weeks he has rebuilt the raised bed garden boxes, and dug out and refreshed the rock pathways between them.

All of this took many days of work. You see that he has the hoop houses covered now. All of his bonsai are now under cover. 

That led him to his next job.

This bonsai bench is under-planted with black mondo grass and gold Angelina sedum, but it is being overtaken with sweet woodruff and the color combination is no longer defined.


So it was time to dig it all out and start over. 

 He dug out a huge amount of plant material, re-set the bench, and the had to sort through all of the mats of roots to separate the mondo grass, the sedum, and the woodruff and grass. Then he cut off some big nursery pots, sunk them into the ground and planted the mondo grass in them to prevent it from running. 

 Salvaged sedum starts were them planted around the mondo grass clumps. Tom spent two days on this job. It should look great by the middle of next summer. 

Then he potted up all of the extra mondo grass starts. Maybe we should use them to replant the lawn where the shade has turned it to moss? Hmmm. Would that work? 

Meanwhile, I have, out of necessity, had to limit my "vigorous" garden activity, but I can still get down on my knees and crawl around. I took on the island bed in the lower yard.

 Over two days I clipped and weeded the bed.

 Then I raked up leaves in the secret garden and used them to mulch the bed.

 I re-cut and cleaned up the edges. We haven't had a frost yet so our hydrangeas are still giving us color. 

I'll be back out here to finish the clean up once all of the leaves have finally fallen. 

Tom is back outside again today, doing little jobs here and there. I'm inside. My every day starts with my PT exercises. Monday we did housework. Yesterday I was outside. Today I am resting my back and went grocery shopping. I spent enough to get a free turkey!  It will go into the freezer for Christmas. We are traveling to my sister's for Thanksgiving.

After I post this blog, I'll study my next little sewing project. I am creating table runners and table toppers as indoor projects to keep me busy. I finished one last week while Tom was working outside. 

I wish I could work as hard outside as I used to, but I'm having to adjust to reality. Sometimes reality bites.