More gardening. Have installed a total of 10 + 15 = 25 bags of cedar mulch, and purchased 15 more bags. That should damn well do it for the cedar mulch, I’m thinking. On the other hand, the yard is starting to look pretty sweet. The grass is growing, the flower beds are settled, etc. I went all obsessive compulsive on a couple of flower beds, and I may have destroyed the crab grass infestation. Maybe. That crap never dies. It’s got its own compost pile, on pavement, where I’m going to burn it on a day when the wind is blowing away from my house.<\/p>\n
Pruned several trees, which is sort of gratifying. You decide what you want the tree to look like, and then hope you get lucky by taking off the correct limbs. I’m going for trees that don’t look like it would be really hard to mow underneath them. My goal for spiders in the hair while steering a running lawn mower this year is zero. Also, removed the 10″ rusty pipe that the previous owner had pounded into the ground next to one of my dogwoods. I think he had tied the tree to this pipe, hoping that it would help somehow. Instead, the tree was getting sicker and sicker. I used my kung-fu grip to pull the pipe out of the ground. Seriously. <\/p>\n