Tonight I strung up some supports for the tomatoes in the “walking garden.” This garden is simply a layer of grass clippings with six inches of compost on top. I […]

This evening I raked up the leaf piles and deposited them behind the shed. They’re quite wet so I’m counting on them to decompose rather quickly. At this point I […]

I finally got around to moving a big brush pile from the willow cuttings a few weeks ago. I was motivated after chatting with my neighbor about Japanese beetles that […]

This morning I made three barrels of leaf compost from the brush. There’s still a lot of it left.. I also spotted a juvenile rabbit in the yard. A few […]

Going to be on light yard work for the next few days. Interior part of my right shoulder has a burning pain. I’ve probably overworked it. I think I aggravated […]

Finally got around to planting one of the three fruit trees that I bought. I wanted to put them in the sunny zone near the vegetables, and admitted I was […]

Today was a long day of yard work. I had a lot of fun, as usual. First order of business was tidying up brush from the cut trees. I spent […]

Tonight I was able, with the neighbor’s help, to take down the last of the willow tree. He made a small cut and I pulled it down with rope. It […]

On the way home from work, I researched a fruit tree-growing technique called “espalier”, where the tree branches are guided to grow horizontally at easy picking height. Apparently this technique […]