Tuesday, 9 February 2016
We again joined forces with Sea Star Gardening for the first clean up at the Port of Ilwaco boatyard.
Clipping back (which can be done even more sternly than above) keeps the santolinas (silver ones and green ones) beautifully rounded instead of splayed open.
Between the sections, Allan dumped load one of debris at the debris pile with a view.
Too bad that I know that soon big horsetail will be sprouting all along this garden. Also too bad we can’t work with Sea Star all the time as it was awfully fun and productive. However, we will be lucky to get them for a couple more spring cleanups before they are well immersed into their own round of jobs.
The sun was setting as we finished the job.
Ginger’s Garden Diaries
I am incorporating my mom’s garden journal from the 90’s into this 2016 journal.
February 9, 1998 (age 73)
[Robert, my spouse at the time, and I were visiting mom at her home near Olympia.]
Robert did a few minor jobs for me. Then we all worked on bringing firewood up to the porch. They emptied all the last year wood from the shed and brought up quite a lot from behind the shop. Now that the shed is empty I will be able to put in there the cut up wood from all the branches (when I get them sawed up).
Your mom didn’t waste one stick of wood, it appears. It also appears that you and Sea Stars are having a good time performing a difficult task. Keep the tedium in check. Beautiful day too.
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She would sit for hours cutting up branches for firewood, a task that she seemed to find meditative and satisfying.
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It must be more cheery to work with some partners than slugging away by yourself.
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It was so fun!
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