Some Down, A Brazillion To Go

I meant to write a detailed blog post but I blew my hands out so badly in the garden this morning that I have been icing them all day long.  I took a small section of the garden near the chinotto orange and raked the mulch off so I could renew the cardboard part of the sheet mulching.   I fertilized the orange, put the cardboard down, cutting to size where necessarily.  I trimmed part of the pineapple salvia I don't like.  Then I put the mini bark back on again.  That should have been enough but I started thinking of things I should do while I had the tools out.  So I pruned anything below the graft on the citrus.  I stirred up the Tanglefoot that had gotten old until I could actually re-apply it.  Unfortunately, the ants found a way onto some of the trees and they now have scale. Dammit.

I watered the EarthBoxes, bits of the lawn, the potted strawberries, and the mulberry tree.  I pulled up a lot of the love-in-a-mist which had gone to seed.  I decided I just wasn't going to get the time to harvest all the seed.  I lopped as much of the volunteer pecan on one side as I could and pulled up the chard that had gone to seed so that now it's sitting on top of the raised bed instead of falling over and into the white coneflower. I lopped some of the blackberry coming over from the next-door-neighbor.  And that was plenty.  Then back in the house where I meant to sleep. However, the house was already too hot.  So I just sat and watched DVDs and iced my wrists and elbows all damned day.