We had rain for a bit, but I was still able to work on both properties this week: weeding the vegetable garden and pruning trees here, pruning the rock garden and with Ron’s help, raking at Edgewater, and some heavy pruning today in the front yard at Dixon.<\/p>
I cut back the Montauks in the front. Thank goodness for the hedge clippers that we grabbed from Edgewater. I treated them today with WD-40 and 3-in-one and they worked great.<\/p>
For a while, I kicked myself for putting in yet another garden, the new one to the right of the driveway. It’ll be worth it, though, as it fills in, and the cleanup really wasn’t that bad.<\/p>
Ron just noted that we still have buds on some of the rose bushes. He is absolutely correct. We had about three gorgeous Indian Summer days, but it’s back to freezing now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We had rain for a bit, but I was still able to work on both properties this week: weeding the vegetable garden and pruning trees here, pruning the rock garden and with Ron’s help, raking at Edgewater, and some heavy … Continue reading