How is your yard doing?

[dalmatiangirl61]

Its a bad week to be a mesquite bush in my yard . Meet my little helper "Simba", she does all the heavy work around here, she can scoop up 2 yards of dirt in a single bite, spread 12 yards of roadbase in a single pass, carry 8000lbs of equipment across a rough field and now she's outfitted as a mesquite puller . Not much perspective in this pic, the tires are approx 5 feet tall, if you ever wondered why mesquite is so hard to kill just look at the roots, this was a smaller one. I've spent about 4 hours per day doing this for past seven days, I kill about 1 a minute, might be at about 2/3's point in the job. Killing never felt so good



Kristin
McGill Clubhouse

[dalmatiangirl61]

Kathy
Yes it is getting a bit too warm for me, I was thinking about it last week as the sweat was blinding me, only problem was it was snowing in McGill and the temp shock would probably kill me . Might be leaving pretty soon, just tried turning on the AC, nothing happened, if its not a cheap fix I'm outta here

Kristin
McGill Clubhouse

[KathyJB]

I had the windows opened most of the day today and it stayed around 68 degrees inside. I only shut the windows because of the guh-nats. I hate gnats. Simba is pretty awesome. You're around Corpus aren't you? Just think how awesome it will be without all those Mesquite trees. save a few big ones to let them dry out and die. You can use them for bar-b-que wood.

[wletson]

Oh, I should have never come back to this topic yet! It's still going down to just above freezing here at night still.

[Igloochic]

I planted 8 new peonies yesterday and literally massacred a bush I don't care for. The dead body is all over the yard lol. Today if the weather holds I'll do the last nine out on the park strip (what we call in front if the fence). Monday the big equipment is arriving to rip up the back yard and cover the cistern. I'm so excited...I know it will be a mess fir a while but by June 1 it will be lovely....I can almost see the maze in my head.....just 260 more boxwoods to plant lol.

[matt8667]

looking better and worse at the same time.
Better-new juniper trees since someone lives next door after 2 years on the market and we need the privacy, planted a pear tree and some boxwood hedges. Corner fences and flower beds are gone and now grass

Worse- i am digging up the old sidewalk to use elsewhere and its a bit of a mess around the house, and the dog seems to enjoy digging random holes in the yard for me to trip over.

[lisascenic]

It's swarm season, so I've been catching feral honeybees!



Here's a hive my sweetie built for one of these colonies of feral bees. It's all reclaimed lumber. And yeah, we realize that the siding that we used to make the little roof should probably have been put on in the opposite orientation. Oh well, live and learn.



Here I am, totally failing to shake a swarm of bees into a hive box. I usually work with a second beekeeper, and I screwed this one up because I was short-handed.

[Leslie Ap]

Oh my gosh- Lisa! What happened to that hive that missed? Could you still collect the hive? I know nothing about beekeeping. Very intriguing!

Regarding killing plants: vinegar kills anything, but it might take a couple years to come back. It's great for cracks between pavers or in driveways.

[lisascenic]

If you click the link to my blog, you can read the sorry saga of that particular swarm. It's the first one I've failed to catch.

[melissakd]

OOOOOHHHHH!!!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

I beg you: Don't use Roundup!

You're poisoning the soil!

And don't get me started on Monsanto and how stunningly evil they are.

MKD