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Posted by trisha_51 z4/5 Alaska (My Page) on Sun, Oct 4, 09 at 1:14
| Today I cleaned up and put to bed my garden. It was a 'fun' job, in a way; I really love being outside, and the weather was nice. Put the plants in the compost pile, and the dirt from containers in the raised beds. Of course, I'm looking forward to next spring, but it was nice to be closing up this season. The potato plants did not grow well at all this year and I was embarrased to claim them, but when we dug them, wow! There were several decent sized ones along with many medium sized potatoes. Next year will be better! |
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| Have you had frost yet? I still have some potted perennials to plant. My excuse is that we had 3 wks. of drought (too dry to transplant) and now we seem to be having three or more weeks of rain and cooler than average temps. I have planted some bulbs already, to go along with the oodles I already have. When the bulbs go on sale in the fall, I can't resist adding a few more to my collection. I envy you. You are more organized than I am. |
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| My compost pile is huge and there's still much to heap upon it. I always hate to see the season end and all the purdy flowers freeze, but afterwards it's good to get things neatened and prepared for the long winter sleep. The weather has now taken a real dive and there's the big push to get things done, heck fall bulbs are still to arrive in the mail. We had one of the driest summers, no more than a mere two to three inches of rain in many locations, the ground is powder dry! I spent the entire summer being attached to a garden hose and will now have to spend many hours watering things in for winter. The garden had turned out very good, the cucumbers not so great, it was too cool in June and July. Potatoes were lousy, just never had gotten around to watering them! Other than the very cold spring start and extremely dry summer, August and September were filled with beautiful warm / hot days and the flowers had put on a really great show! Just too bad we didn't have one more month of summer! Terry |
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