This totally describes me!

7 years ago

There was this post / on FB today that totally describes me as I am going outside. So I wanted to share. It's in the comments.

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Melissa Northern Italy zone 8

7 years ago

My goal is, second, to have a garden, but first, to be gardening. I work in my garden all year except when the weather doesn't permit: too hot, snow on the ground, raining (pretty hard). My most important garden periods are fall--planting--and winter--pruning and cleanup. Spring I look a lot and try to stay ahead of the weeds. Summer is when I'm most likely to be indoors, as it's too hot much of the time to work outside, and an unirrigated garden doesn't have much to offer that time of year. If temperatures stay below heatwave level I go down in the woods and work in the shade. There are always brush and dead trees to deal with.

Yesterday I was pruning some established old roses that needed a thorough cleanup, and shearing an area of subshrubs--phlomis, shrub germander, lavender--and grass and weeds. My helper was terracing: modestly leveling paths and building up beds while amending the soil with old hay. I hope badgers and wild boars don't undo his labors. This area was planted about a decade ago, has never done well, but I was pleased to see that the plants are taking hold, and transforming the originally obstinately sterile gray clay. Terracing does visual wonders for transforming a slope into a garden; without it, a group of plants remains just a group of plants.

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Alana8aSC
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7 years ago
Genevre
7 years ago
Alana, that is so true. Thank you!
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User
7 years ago
That's a good one... I might add to it though and say that it never begins, because it never ends... it's ongoing, at least unless I get snowed in... I have this fantasy of shutting up shop for a couple of months but it rarely happens... this is surely true of anyone who is zone 7 or higher...?..
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Alana8aSC
Original Author
7 years ago
I get a little bits at the time that I can't be outside doing anything, mostly holiday break during the winter. But January is when I go back in the yard. So I say it's TRUE for me in zone 8a and we also get some break for weather. Mostly after January. But what you said is most likely true for zone 9 and higher, maybe 8b. I can't speak for them. I could be just an exception since I get enough cold for gallicas Marlorena, I am not sure. But for me this is true. Some year it starts in October, the end, when I start getting my Winter break, sometimes it November, or heaven forbid even early December. But I'm always back out in the yard sometime in January.
Alana8aSC
Original Author
7 years ago
Another one!
Alana8aSC
Original Author
7 years ago
Yes Melissa I take breaks in the heat as well!

I've been weeding. Last year this time I was cutting out the endless trees trying to take over. Oak seedlings coming up everywhere. I leave some. Mostly the big leaf oaks. Take out the smaller leaf ones that don't go dormant.

My weeds did not seem to die this year, no matter what weather we had. When I took the kids to school this morning my car said it was 24 degrees. Weatherman said we were 27 or 26, but we got lower. Windchill was supposed to have us at 11 degrees. Tomorrow is supposed to be colder.
Deborah MN zone 4
7 years ago
I too have been weeding and in general cleaning up when weather permits. The heat of summer always does me in and last year, to top it off, we had a chigger out break! So my garden is filled with winter projects.
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Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
7 years ago
The dream continues.

It has been pouring all week so I haven't been able to even pull any weeds.

I may try to defoliate all of the roses on my deck

I feel the need to do something
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Alana8aSC
Original Author
7 years ago
That heat in the summer does me in too Deborah. I get behind every summer..

So sorry Kristine! I was there when we were getting it! But it was three days a week, not a week.