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This is a picture from my birthday party. It is a little olds. Please excuse the lack of clothing.
Friday:
Friday was the Fairytale ball at the Public Library. Alice got all dressed up to go and Buddy decided that he wanted to get dressed up too. You cannot see very easily, but Buddy is wearing two pairs of pants. One of them is correct and the other is kind of twisted. He put them both on by himself. and waddled around like that until it was time to go.
He decided that he also wanted a "Hat" like his silly big sister (2 pictures up).
There was a puppet show.
And dancing, although this action shots in bad lighting is kind of fuzzy.
Saturday:
On Saturday we worked outside in the yard. It was wonderful weather. We finished putting together the raised beds. We put in a border around it to hold the giant pile of mulch that is blocking our driveway. And we planted 6 fruit trees, 2 peach, 2 apple, and 2 pare. Our soil here is very high in clay, so we bought 480 lbs of composted cow manure and top soil to help give the trees a good start. The yard is starting to look good.
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I really, really, really like the garden beds!! So why did you choose to mulch around them instead of leaving it grassy? Have you filled them with dirt yet? Where did you buy the fruit trees?
ReplyDeleteIn the past, grass around the garden beds was just one hassle after another. I'd have to mow around them, weed-whack it to make it look sharp, and then constantly be pulling up all the grass runners that snuck in under the edges of the raised beds. We experimented with landscape fabric and chipped wood mulch around the beds last summer and found it better suited to my gardening style. Upkeep was low. It always looked nice. I could go out in the garden barefoot or shod, wet or dry, and do what I needed to do with minimum hassle and no extra equipment (like a machete...I'm no good at keeping up with the lawn). Loved it!
ReplyDeleteI could fill the beds now, but I'd like to wait for compost to go on sale (half price!) on the 16th of April at our local landscape recycling center. That saves me $100, they deliver all 11 cubic yards of it directly to my driveway, and it keeps me from planting things outside too soon.
The fruit trees came from Stark Bro's in St. Louis. I like their history, their quality, their variety, and their location. It's hard to find a huge variety of dwarf trees at a local hardware store/nursery here, especially if you have questions about cross pollination and disease resistance.