Part 1
This is the backyard Mom works to grow her garden in:
This is the backyard Mom works to grow her garden in:
Usually in April Mom starts to get ready for the local garden club event
which is held at one of the local arts businesses, but this year the rains
kept coming all through April so it was not until May that she got a chance
to get started with her annual garden work. Its a lot of work so I help her.
which is held at one of the local arts businesses, but this year the rains
kept coming all through April so it was not until May that she got a chance
to get started with her annual garden work. Its a lot of work so I help her.
I get to do the heavy lifting types of work and
digging up of plants that need to be moved or planted.
digging up of plants that need to be moved or planted.
The city has started a recycling center. They collect
trees and shrubs that are left by the curb each year and the next year they
put it out as a finely chopped composted mulch. When Mom gets her garden
trees and shrubs that are left by the curb each year and the next year they
put it out as a finely chopped composted mulch. When Mom gets her garden
going I have to go get buckets of mulch so she can spread it around. I put
the buckets in the trunk of the car with a shovel and go fill them. The city
offers this mulch for free, all you have to do is go get it. After I get home I put
the buckets of mulch out around her garden rows so she can put it where she wants it.
the buckets in the trunk of the car with a shovel and go fill them. The city
offers this mulch for free, all you have to do is go get it. After I get home I put
the buckets of mulch out around her garden rows so she can put it where she wants it.
I am not allowed to do any gardening.
As part of the getting ready process Mom goes through her raspberry bushes.
She thins them out as needed and she also looks for stray ones that
the birds or squirrels may have planted the year before like this one:
When she finds these she might have me dig it up and then put it with the rest
if there is a gap where some have died off. Or she may have me drop them
in a pot so she can make them available for the garden club event.
The mulch gets spread everywhere. Here is her flower bed in front of the house:
Her irises bed:
And the small corner bed by the stairs leading up to the front door:
The darker brown areas are where she has started to put mulch. I have to go several times
to get enough buckets of mulch to cover all of her gardening areas.
~MID MAY~
Around the middle of May my older brother, who has an organic gardening company,
sends Mom tomato plants he has raised. They come in a box. Here is this year's delivery:
They are a little wilted and yellowed because Mom has not been able to get them out
to plant them because it has still been raining hard this year. She has mentioned a
number of times how she is frustrated she can't get them planted right away.
She took them out of the cardboard box and put them in this plastic box
to get ready for when the rains break.
As part of the getting ready process Mom goes through her raspberry bushes.
She thins them out as needed and she also looks for stray ones that
the birds or squirrels may have planted the year before like this one:
When she finds these she might have me dig it up and then put it with the rest
if there is a gap where some have died off. Or she may have me drop them
in a pot so she can make them available for the garden club event.
The mulch gets spread everywhere. Here is her flower bed in front of the house:
Her irises bed:
And the small corner bed by the stairs leading up to the front door:
The darker brown areas are where she has started to put mulch. I have to go several times
to get enough buckets of mulch to cover all of her gardening areas.
~MID MAY~
Around the middle of May my older brother, who has an organic gardening company,
sends Mom tomato plants he has raised. They come in a box. Here is this year's delivery:
They are a little wilted and yellowed because Mom has not been able to get them out
to plant them because it has still been raining hard this year. She has mentioned a
number of times how she is frustrated she can't get them planted right away.
She took them out of the cardboard box and put them in this plastic box
to get ready for when the rains break.
And then the rains stopped for a few days and she planted them.
She had to trim them back quite a bit, and she began to worry that they might not
make it as she had to wait so long for the rains to quit.
She got them all in though, and put fresh mulch around all of them.
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