What did you do in your garden today?

[flowerbug]

working on pathway edge today. first day outside. yes, i'm overdoing it.. will feel it later i'm sure. but i already feel happy knowing this will be mostly done today.

windy, warm, sunny, need cookie and milk for lunch and then lip balm for the wind or i'll be all plumped up later and even more regretful...

 

[flowerbug]

got as far as i wanted done today. looks, much, much nicer. the end part i have left to do is full of quack grass, that is not going to be fun at all...

also found ground hog burrow starting up. they've been in that spot before and i shut them down several times, they eventually keep coming back and trying every which way to get back in there. wastes so much time having to deal with them.

 

[LaurenRitz]

got as far as i wanted done today. looks, much, much nicer. the end part i have left to do is full of quack grass, that is not going to be fun at all...

also found ground hog burrow starting up. they've been in that spot before and i shut them down several times, they eventually keep coming back and trying every which way to get back in there. wastes so much time having do deal with them.

I don't know if it would work for everyone, but I ground up horseradish into a slurry and poured it in their holes, around plants I wanted to protect, and across the forecasted route. Usually took about a week for them to vacate for the season.

 

[flowerbug]

I don't know if it would work for everyone, but I ground up horseradish into a slurry and poured it in their holes, around plants I wanted to protect, and across the forecasted route. Usually took about a week for them to vacate for the season.

the area where this is at i may be digging up entirely pretty deep anyways (to remove the quack grass that is invading and to put down a barrier for preventing that from happening again of some kind) so in the process of doing that i'll get a chunk of fence cut to fit across that area and they won't be able to dig through there again.

will they shift to the left (the right is blocked by rocks already)? i don't know. i hope not. there's just something about this particular spot they have always gone after it. i think it is part of an old drain tile and perhaps they like that little bit of extra moisture during the really dry spells. dunno though for sure what it is.

i've already put rocks and metal stakes and anything else i could to discourage them from going into that bank, but they are persistent and eventually they find a gap to exploit.

if i get into it too much it will be a lot of, um, fun, yeah, that word, getting all that stuff back out of there... i really don't need this kind of project right now, but the quack grass removal really does have to happen anyways no matter what.