Back to the Gardens - August 12, 2019 @goldenoakfarm

There’s really a fence in there…

I finally finished all the house drawings on Sunday, so Monday morning, a nice cool, low humidity morning, I was back out in the gardens. I’d decided to tackle the Big garden again.

I’d tried to walk in it on Sunday to harvest plantain and could not see where to go, the weeds are so bad. I need to be harvesting the Walla onions this week and can’t find them.

I thought I’d start at the south end and work north. But there was a problem. I could not see the south end for all the weeds around the perimeter outside the fence. So I went out and started there.

See? I told you….

It went surprisingly fast and I finished the 42’ south side by 9:30AM.

Then I did 30’ down the east side. It got too hot for me at 11AM so I quit.

There’s onions in there, this side of the flowers….

Big garden – Black-eyed Susans, liatris, Queen Anne’s lace, hollyhocks, echinacea, cleome, yarrow

Big garden volunteer

I’ve never grown brown sunflowers, so this must have come from a neighbor’s garden.

I was trying to get a photo of one of the 2 Monarchs that were flying around the Big garden as I took pictures, but they are too wily for me. Maybe when I can walk inside the garden again…

Rugosa rose flowers and ripening hips

We lost a lot of little apples to apple drop this year. There are still a few on the tree, but they are small and wizened from bugs.

New Herb garden – Tansy flowering behind wormwood

It’s easily 8’ – 9’ in diameter and about 7’ high.

Nothing new on construction. We can’t reach the foundation guy. He has his phone turned off and no message option. No idea when he’s to show up, we’d hoped yesterday… So still waiting.

In the meantime, my husband is using my new drawings to update his CAD drawings and create electrical plans, etc.

And finally, a shot of Dennis the Girl, one of the barn cats, he got one morning as she waited for him to give her breakfast.

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