If you do the work and no one sees it, have you accomplished anything?
"Oh! You haven't done anything in the back yet," our visitor exclaimed last weekend as she looked out the window at this:
Ouch. We rushed to defend ourselves.
This year in back I've—
Together we've—
I shouldn't blame our visitor for not noticing the absence of a 4-foot-high weed jungle. But still—she didn't give us credit for doing anything at all. Ouch.
Ouch. We rushed to defend ourselves.
This year in back I've—
- Planted potatoes.
- Killed the whitetop.
- Hand-pulled all the flixweed.
- Hand-pulled the prickly lettuce and cheat grass in the rear area.
- "Mowed" the weeds in the former lawn several times, using the hedge trimmer when the string on the Weedeater kept jamming.
- Hand-pulled the weeds on the concrete deck.
- Smothered more weeds with carpet pad.
- Sprayed the salt grass in the "rose garden" with Roundup (took a full 2.25-gallon tank).
- Moved plants out of the corner planters on the concrete deck to the garden.
- Planted a few more perennials in the garden.
- Kept flowers and veggies alive in pots on the patio.
- Started to dig out the dirt and bark piled up against the back fences.
Together we've—
- Cut down several dead fruit trees and hauled them to the dump.
- Cut a large, dying branch off this cottonwood tree and cut it into firewood.
- Moved 14 rosebushes from the front yard to the back.
- Pruned the trees.
- Pulled a lot of the rocks out of the pond we're going to get rid of (we'll need a backhoe for the rest).
I shouldn't blame our visitor for not noticing the absence of a 4-foot-high weed jungle. But still—she didn't give us credit for doing anything at all. Ouch.
Posted by Laurel at 8/26/2011 1:59 PM 
Categories: Gardening, Rabbitbrush Ranch II
Tags: Northern Nevada Reno
Categories: Gardening, Rabbitbrush Ranch II
Tags: Northern Nevada Reno
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