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[ravena_kade]

Had an early release day today. 2 hours early. This is a perk from my boss's boss. I like him. I just wish he had another team here in Boston. Since I start at 6 I left at noon. Came home and took Dad to a local diner for lunch. We then went food shopping and I did 3 hours of yard work and then an ice-cream for supper... I iz tired.

The yard work consisted of cleaning up the bed I worked on a couple of weeks ago. I didn't work in the yard last week as I sliced my finger rather deeply. When I went out I find that the neighbor cut down stuff atom his yard and hacked more lilac push and left it all in my garden bed. I was not a happy camper. Dad dumped it back in their yard. I weeded and put in 10 tomato plants, a few flowers and then laid down 7 bags of mulch. I am hoping the mulch keeps down the weeds and holds some moisture. My soil sucks and the only thing holding it down is weed roots. I will feed the tomatoes. They liked it there last year so I am hoping for good results this year.

Tomorrow will be the L shaped boarder. Weeding planting some annuals and a broom plant. Maybe dividing some old dallies. Then mulch. Then on to planting the eggplant... I have fallen in love with a Chinese Eggplant recipe so I a want to make it on my own and I also want to make eggplant parmigiana. Hoping to do this work before rain comes in.

Sunday, if it is not raining I will move to the front door garden.

Kind of bummed that I could not do the art class thing this weekend due to the new doc bills, but it will be nice to have this work done.

Comments

[gwendraith]

You have been a busy bee in the garden and it will look wonderful once it all blooms. Sorry about the cut finger, it was wise not to do any gardening with it.

I live in Fenland (drained marshes) and the soil is glorious. It's why this is the largest crop growing region in the country. Anything grows in the black peaty soil.

What a cheeky neighbour you have throwing his cuttings into your space!

[guy_todd]

Your neighbor is quite the jerk. Glad Dad returned their missing foliage. :p

[malterre]

Sad about the lilacs.
Your neighbor seems fixated with defoliating

[ravena_kade]

He is an odd guy. I think he was either a refugee or grew up very poor. He spends hours and hours in the yard and gardens on a level of small farm...so anything growing that is not edible is killed. He then wraps his garden in strings and poles and ties all manner of plastic bags to the strings so the movement keeps away critters, but it just looks like trash blowing in the wind and I have trash blowing all over my yard.

[brickhousewench]

I'm super sad about the lilacs too. =( How can you not like lilacs?