June 2016 Chronological
Worked on a number of projects that didn't get completed, and, in fact I'm only getting around to posting these in September.
Took three loads from here over to the blackberry patch.
this year the milkweed is growing with a much wider variety of companions. Ragweed being prominent.
Wood chip mulch tossed into the black berry patch. The left side has mainly new canes that will fruit next year; the right side has about a 50/50 mix of new canes and second year bearing canes with a lot of berries.
Difficult to see in this photo, but winter creeper is widespread under these.
Green blackberries. My hope is that by mulching them I will help keep water available for these to turn into nice juicy berries.
The enclosure on the left has three wires and mostly canes that came up this year. Only two wires on the right and the far side of that enclosure is not being maintained.
Path is just wide enough for the mower. The pitch fork is required to load the chips/mulch into the wagon and can also be used to unload put the mulch in place. However the snow shovel also works very well once the back gate is off the wagon. And also is the only practical way to pick up stuff toward the end of the unloading.
This log pile is in a narrow ditch that mostly drains kitchen garden bed 2. It will be covered with the clayey soil and tamped down to prevent a lot of air getting downto the logs so that decay will slow and let this continue to serve as drainage help. Don't plan to plant things here, this crosses an access path. The right or north end is inside garden bed 1 and that will be treated like a normal logpile berm, with layers of mulch and sticks and stuff built up above the ground level.
This log pile is in a narrow ditch that mostly drains kitchen garden bed 2. It will be covered with the clayey soil and tamped down to prevent a lot of air getting downto the logs so that decay will slow and let this continue to serve as drainage help. Don't plan to plant things here, this crosses an access path. The right or north end is inside garden bed 1 and that will be treated like a normal logpile berm, with layers of mulch and sticks and stuff built up above the ground level. Found some nice rotted trunks to go in here where the drainage tunnel enters garden bed 1.
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The top piece and the center piece
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wild black raspberries and wild strawberries
The black raspberry volunteered in the front yard under the dogwood. The stawberries are living over on the east part of the place.
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Is this darkened area something to be concerned about?
This sugar maple (?) reaches into the canopy and has a nice spread up there, but down here at grond level there's this dark area, almost as if it had been painted with black paint. The bark pattern is also interrupted on this side, the west side, and you can see where somthing has made holes into the tree.
Is this darkened area something to be concerned about?
This sugar maple (?) reaches into the canopy and has a nice spread up there, but down here at grond level there's this dark area, almost as if it had been painted with black paint. The bark pattern is also interrupted on this side, the west side, and you can see where somthing has made holes into the tree.
This sugar maple (?) reaches into the canopy and has a nice though not huge spread up there, but down here at grond level there's this dark area, almost as if it had been painted with black paint. The bark pattern is also interrupted on this side, the west side, and you can see where somthing has made holes into the tree.
top piece is grape vine that had sat out in the weather after being cut for several mnths, then cleaned up. The middle piece is driftwood from just off the Katy trail by the Bonne Femme creek bridge. the dangling slices on top from mulberry and the bottom dangle slices I'm not sure what it was. Treated with 2 applications of water based spar urethane from Helmsman.
Fill with logs and larger branches
Underneath is a thin layer of waste paper.
Add bunch of green, ragweed in this case.
Layer of kitchen waste covered by greenery on this half of the bed. some nice topsoil waiting to go on top of that.
