I have been working just a little bit obsessively in the yard and garden these last few days. I've cleaned out flower beds, raked sticks and leaves in the chicken yard, moved potted plants into an enclosure in the old dog pen in one more attempt to keep the deer away from them and to have a pleasant aspect to look at out my living room window. It's not much to look at now, but I'm hoping to get some nice flowers growing in those containers soon. The kind that deer find delicious, and I miss having around.
You can't see it, [which is the cool thing about it] but there is bird netting all along the fence in front of the pots. Otherwise, the fawns when they are little, will walk right through that fence. Yeah. Persistent little rascals.
Several years ago, I planted about 8 lavender plants along the outside of my garden fence. They have grown really well, and I have harvested a LOT of flowers. But in the last year or two, they had begun to encroach on the driveway AND were shading the flower beds inside the garden. I decided it was time to take them out.
I knew it was going to be a big job. And I was right. After I cut all the plant off, I had to dig the roots out.
Looking at this now, I'm amazed I could keep going.
I had a brand new pair of loppers to help me. They worked great.
At this point I took a break and came back after the sun had gone down. I am leaving the two "Grosso" plants that I will harvest one more time this Spring and then I'll take those out too. They look pretty bad since they were all crammed up together with the other varieties that do not have the best qualities I'm looking for. I planted five new plants inside the garden last year, so I will have more to harvest starting this year.
It looks pretty rough right now. I need to mow and perhaps plant something low growing that the deer won't care to chew on. I have no idea what that will be right now.
I am officially worn out.
Officially.
