Hands in the dirt
It’s Sunday at the end of spring break, and I’m gathering my thoughts and photos from the week. I spent quite a bit of time in the yard, cleaning up last year’s dead growth and making plans for this summer’s gardening projects. We had a week of overall great weather that allowed quite a bit of outdoor time. My first project was cutting back the ornamental grasses and perennials. I like to leave the old growth through the winter to provide cover and food for insects, birds, and other mammals. Once that was done, I turned to the ever necessary beating back of encroaching grass and weeds along bed edges. I only got a little of this done before Bill reminded me that we didn’t have fresh mulch to cover and that the grass and weeds will have time to grow back before we get to that. So edging will have to wait until school is out in June. Next, I recalled the roses out in the field that we planted about 4 years ago. They did great the first year, but by the second year, the deer had majorly
