April garden notes
Most of my April gardening work has been tidying up the beds, pruning old blooms off the hydrangeas, raking leaves, and weeding. Oh, the maple saplings and onion grass have been prolific this year, so pulling them out of the beds has been my primary objective. Instead of spending a couple of long days weeding, I decided to work in small chunks. Every day, after my morning walk, I put on my gardening boots and gloves and would fill one bucket, sometimes two. I worked my way around the house in this manner and just finished the last bed last week. I know from experience that overwhelming projects can be easily completed in bite-sized pieces, but it still always surprises me. Jeff has been taking the same approach with trimming bushes and hedges. He also put weed and feed on the lawn and cleaned up along the curb. When we
