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And She SCORES!!!

mulchpile

Wooo hooo it is a great day here at KG! This morning I couldn’t help but hear the guys from the state road crew cutting back the Bradford Pear trees along our road. I happened to notice that they had a mulcher with them…mulcher…trees…garden. YESSSS. It took me three trips out to the road to finally connect with the supervisor. I happened to point out how easy it would be to drop off that half of a dump truck load right there in our yard at the edge of the road. Plenty of room to turn around, easy in, easy out. I was hopeful when he walked over with me to see where the dump spot was. I came back in the house and looked out a little later to see that they were gone. I was bummed as I thought I wasn’t getting any mulch today. But… a little while later a pile had magically appeared back near the garden. Only a gardener would get excited about someone dumping chopped up trees on their lawn. lol

One thing I did consider was disease. The reason these trees were cut was that they were overgrown, not diseased. Also, I don’t have any fruit trees that will be getting this mulch so I feel safe. If anyone knows any different please let me know.

Now what to do with all this mulch? I see mulched garden aisles, more compost… ideas, I need more ideas, anyone?

Plant Swap

Went to my first plant swap Saturday and it was great. I ended up with the day lilies & coreopsis I was hoping for plus a lot more. I can’t wait till the next one. I’m already preparing some plants and taking cuttings that will hopefully be ready to go by mid Sept.

I found what I believe to be a Black Knight Buddleia (Butterfly Bush) growing near where I work. Its on a median in a small neighborhood. I’ve taken 6 cuttings and have them in some moist soil with some rooting powder on them. I have my fingers crossed. I hope to end up with a couple to trade and one for me.

I’ve been playing around with some garden journaling software. “My Garden Journal” is pretty much set, just fill in the blanks and “Garden Organizer Deluxe” lets you customize everything down to which fields show up on which pages. I really prefer MGJ as it has 90% of what I am looking for but the lack of an import feature is a real pain. I have almost a years worth of local weather data that I would have to enter one day at a time and who has time for that? GOD has the import capability plus it will publish to html though I haven’t had a chance to try feature out yet.