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Yarden Spring Cleaning

4/27/2020

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Bear here...

Hope everyone is safe. We are on day 40 of no store shopping or going anywhere. Good thing we have our Yarden to keep us busy. We had a few good days outside and thought you would like to see some of what we did to get ready for summer. 
We did a lot of work by our white shed. Lots of deadheading while we could still walk back there...
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We rake the wall nuts in the spring. Now we can see the path.
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We removed the pavers and planted red clover. It should look better and we have other uses for the pavers.
We also put some round pavers on our patio tho give us something to walk on when we pick wild strawberries this year.
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Here was our first big year of harvesting in 2018.
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We had trouble getting to the back strawberries without crushing some of the front ones.I have to remember to step on them instead of stubbing my toes on them.
Last year we had a lot of weeds growing in the path of our Celtic Cross garden so we decided to pull them and use the mulch we had on hand. The pine needles from our front tree. This year when we cleaned up some of our front paths we put the pine needles back on the Celtic Cross path for a head start at stopping the weeds. Looks pretty good...
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Path by the berm. Checked and cleared...
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Should be interesting to see what happens when we mulch in Spring instead of late summer.
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Didn't forget the little path to the driveway. See the stem pile by the house? All the dead head cuttings from our front yard.
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The path by the pond we redid last year still looks good.
As you will see below, one of our big projects was to clear out the sunchoke area enough to start digging them up. 
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Can you tell we didn't Clean this last year? We had our work cut out for us.
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Getting closer. The stuff I raked up was used on a path by the bird condo.
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Looks a lot better. Time to dig! Nope, time for dinner...
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Here is Theresa being macho. Most of the stalks are dry enough to break down and use as kindling for our wood stove. BONUS USE!
Now all we need to do is dig them up before they start sprouting. Hopefully this week.

Hope you liked the cleaning tour.

​Type at ya later...
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