Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Harley quilt and lots of weeding - Monday's post that I forgot to publish
Friday night I had to mow the front and one side yard. I couldn't believe how high the grass was! Saturday, I went to the grocery store and cross stitched a bit before working on the Harley quilt. Sunday afternoon I quilted more and I am now 96% done with the quilting. I just have these two shirts left to quilt.
Sunday morning, I was up 6:30 am and got out to the front yard at 6:50. The moon was still out!
It was time to attach the weeds that were overtaking the center flower bed. I had a bunch of coneflowers that had grown from self-seeding last year and they were growing into some nice plants this year. I needed to give them some room to breath and free them from the weeds and some of the Shasta daisy plants. Here is what they looked like before I got started.
Here is what that area looks like now.
Then moving clockwise the next area I had started on a week ago, but it still needed a lot of work. Much better!
I decided to get out the electric chainsaw and trim the mugo pine a bit. Here is the before and after. It still needs some hand pruning, but it is looking so much better.
I still have a couple hours of work to finish up getting the bulk of the weeds pulled. I did end up with three wagon loads of weeds and mugo pine bits which equates to about 60 gallons of stuff! I worked for 3 hours and needed to get something to eat and rest a bit so I could get back to quilting the Harley quilt.
We are suppose to get rain almost every day this week. I think I will give the flower bed a couple weeks to show me what weeds are going to sprout up again, pull those, and then toss down some flower seeds. I am going to try and get out and disturb the bare soil a couple of time to discourage any new weeds. I do have a nice bunch of California Poppies coming up that self-seeded from last years crop.
Finally I will show you that the African violets are still alive. I got these back in February from my friend's husband. Here is what they looked like when I brought them home and how they look now.
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3 comments:
Wow, your violets are doing fantastic! The mugo pine looks so much better all trimmed up. I love seeing their cool branches.
That is great progress on the Harley quilt. You will have this one done with time to spare.
That is a lot of weeding and trimming. It's good you got it done ahead of this rainy week. We are expecting the rain too and I hope to see the tomato plants take a big leap in growth.
weeds - this morning my next door neighbor stopped on her way to work to tell me that when she finishes with her weeds, she'll start on mine ... i was working on them, seriously ... i'm not as fast at it as i once was, but making progress at digging them instead of just mowing them down takes longer ... anywho, you're beds look really good, and so does the quilt!
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