Yesterday was a very productive day in the garden for me. My helper and I spent 3 hours out there, and we finished most of the things that had to be done before the snow comes. And not a moment too soon, it snowed in the night tonight — an inch is on the ground right now. Update: After actually going outside, it seems we got more like 3 inches of wet snow last night.
List #1 (Imperative)
- Mulch roses and protect canes — DONE
- Wrap blueberry pots and hosta pot (bubble wrap and burlap) — DONE
- Plant 1 more bag each of daffodils and tulips (must trim/pull grass in beds to do this) — DONE
- Pull up sweet pea plants in front of house
- Plant new chrysanthemums and lavender plant — DONE (and weeded around the front lawn patio, and trimmed up the perennials there, giving us room to plant the new plants, this is where the tulips went, too)
- Rake leaves — mostly done — half the backyard & most of the leaves are raked, must do the other half of the backyard and all of the front
List #2 (Nice to do but not imperative)
- Cut up branches trimmed from trees, mulch vegetable beds with them to keep cats out — DONE
- Prune currant bushes, flowering quince bushes
- Trim grass around currant bushes
- Prune cherry tree, sycamore tree watersprouts
- Cut back chives around sycamore tree
- Cut back irises in backyard
- Cut down cornstalks and fertilize soil in barrel where corn grows
- Fertilize soil in barrel where mini pumpkins grow
- Empty containers on deck that don’t have plants to overwinter
- Take strawberry pots in driveway to back deck — one moved, the other is still in the driveway
So the must-do list is almost done, leaving the nice-but-not-imperative list. Very nice — I feel pretty good about it. There’s a chance I’ll get it all done before the snow (or really bad weather) comes. If I can get the second list done, I’ll have a good start on my spring chores too. Here’s hoping.
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