I dove in and finshed cleaning up the backyard, triming the butterfly bush and the potato vine. I spent an hour and a half digging out the Bermuda grass that creeps in from the neighbors overgrown back yard. I have been an organic gardener since the dawn of time, but today, while yanking that stubborn stuff out of the ground, I had visions of toxic chemicals shriveling it's tenacious obnoxiousness into oblivion. But from what I have read, even the toxic chemicals tremble in fear when facing Bermuda grass. I need a new strategy for next year.
Hub Man completed the clean up by mowing the lawn and I put away all the summer tools and what nots that were out on the patio. It is serenly neat and clean out there at the moment. The only thing that looks a bit ratty are the blackberry canes but they are not ready to be pruned yet. I have to wait till February or so to make sure I am cutting only the dead ones out. Right now, they all are green, even though some of them will die as the weather gets cold.
The main thing left will be to rake leaves. But the fruitless pear looks as if it's high summer. Its leaves are green and shiney. I don't know what it's waiting for. I suppose a hard frost. I have a feeling I will be raking leaves in December.
Anyway, I have to get going now and buy some candy for the trick or treaters.
I usually am prepared well in advance for that, but somehow this year it crept up on me!
BOO!