The Ivy is Gone!!!
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botiasThings I bought that I really, really didn't need: A yard-sale tarantula. At least s/he came with a nifty two-unit tarantula condo. Also, bare root fruit trees were 50% off so I now have a 'Honeycrisp' apple and a 'Liberty' apple.
I have been gardening fearlessly. I don't know if it's just some sort of Spring energy, but it's so wonderful. I'm planting plants that have been waiting far too long for the 'perfect' place. I've tended to be a garden romantic, never seeming to grasp that my relationship with my flowering annuals is fleeting and doomed until they begin to fade. This spring I actually planted cosmos before the agrostemma has even begun to bloom in earnest. I also tackled the Ivy Disaster.
I just went for it late one afternoon with an electric hedge trimmer bought for the purpose and a hand saw. Things went faster when the Mister joined in with his Sawz-all. I had never used a Sawz-all before, but I highly recommend it. We hacked the I.D. into three 4' X 10' slabs with it, and then my mom showed up with her pick-up and took it all to the green waste. I'm very excited by this development even though it will take time to have the same level of privacy. The Mister is in the process of putting in a new fence that is set back some feet from the ivy-covered one. More garden space!!!
And finally: those little white fuzzy things at the right are peaches! I've never grown them before. I can't wait to see how the whole ripening thing works out.
I have been gardening fearlessly. I don't know if it's just some sort of Spring energy, but it's so wonderful. I'm planting plants that have been waiting far too long for the 'perfect' place. I've tended to be a garden romantic, never seeming to grasp that my relationship with my flowering annuals is fleeting and doomed until they begin to fade. This spring I actually planted cosmos before the agrostemma has even begun to bloom in earnest. I also tackled the Ivy Disaster.
I just went for it late one afternoon with an electric hedge trimmer bought for the purpose and a hand saw. Things went faster when the Mister joined in with his Sawz-all. I had never used a Sawz-all before, but I highly recommend it. We hacked the I.D. into three 4' X 10' slabs with it, and then my mom showed up with her pick-up and took it all to the green waste. I'm very excited by this development even though it will take time to have the same level of privacy. The Mister is in the process of putting in a new fence that is set back some feet from the ivy-covered one. More garden space!!!
And finally: those little white fuzzy things at the right are peaches! I've never grown them before. I can't wait to see how the whole ripening thing works out.
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Date: 2011-05-16 03:37 pm (UTC)That reminds me of the time I started ivy [dumb me] to cover a chain link fence in he corner of my backyard. Three years later, it hadn't gone vertical so...I ripped it out, [So satisfied.] Then the next spring I saw it thirty feet away!! climbing up my wooden stockade fence.
Never thought of sawzall!!
Good luck with the fruit trees and all your new space.
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Date: 2011-05-16 06:31 pm (UTC)Thanks!