My husband, son, and I spent a few hours working in the garden before the son went down. My son was weeding the strip beside the house where we will be planting the blackberry bushes. He got a 4 x 2 foot area and a 4 x 3 foot area weeded. These are the nasty weeds that are really hard to get out because they have runners.
My husband got the garden bed empty that was so heavily invested with morning glory. The root structure in there was unbelievable. The three sides to the bed still need to be taken down, but he was beat after that, so that is a project for the next nice day we have. It's supposed to rain tomorrow but be overcast only on Friday. And then rain for the forseeable future.
I was working on digging up and dividing strawberries. It took me about 3 hours, but we have quite a tidy amount to sell and I've expanded the ones we are keeping to fill a 12 by 4 foot garden bed with four rows. I filled 4 garbage cans that I grew tomatoes in last year and then 3 more containers. There will be lots of strawberries this year for fresh eating, jam, and freezing. I should be able to sell 4 dozen plants at a dollar a plant.
I'll be able to divide both my peppermint, lemon balm, thyme and spearmint this year. And I've got some more fennel volunteers that can be sold. And I can divide my bee balm and plant it in a couple of locations. We will also be selling raspberry plants because we have way too many plants based on how many people actually eat raspberries. We will keep a few of the thornless ones and plant them in a different area away from the fence, so we can see if the morning glory starts creeping over from the neighbor's yard again and do something about it before it gets into ours.
I got a check in the mail today from Allstate for the safe driver's refund. It's for $37.49. I will deposit it on Friday (payday) and send it to the EF. I am starting to think maybe we will hit the original goal for the EF for this year after all. Wouldn't that be something?
March 23rd, 2021 at 07:51 pm 1616529110
Your garden sounds extraordinary. I enjoy reading your updates and how you grow so much and do so much with it.