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It certainly doesn’t look like 3+ hours work.

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First, I weeded the garden bed.

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Which…. when you’re old adjacent at 59 and have a blown knee… isn’t as much fun as it used to be.

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Then I sprinkled a container of shake and feed bloom booster.

And worked it into the soil with a blister boosting rake.

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Then I watered the soil and planted the few flowers the woodchucks left me.

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Three hours plus for a few measly perennials.

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$200 worth of flowers barely made a dent. That’s just wrong.

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48 thoughts on “It certainly doesn’t look like 3+ hours work.”

  6. I feel your pain. I’ve spent the last week, every day after work prepping my lawn for the clover grass mix I’m planting today. And it looks….meh. I mean It was mostly cleaning and raking, cleaning and raking…..and raking 🙄. So I could get the soil ready for the seeding and every time I finished it still looked the same.

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  7. $200 worth of flowers-I feel better about shopping for bargains. You never know what you may find at Wal-Mart, some nurseries, and other places. Some good finds. Gardening is a lot of hard work which is why I am glad the rain is coming this afternoon. It is hard on the hips and the knees. On the other hand, less yoga although I feel I do yoga moves for the neighbor’s benefit. I hope they don’t laugh too much at me! Enjoy the day.

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  14. I hear ya. I’ve spent marathon days in the garden – planting, weeding, moving plants – and still have more to do. This year I’m starting to notice I’m losing my excitement for gardening a bit, which is bad because we have tons of gardens. I should be out there weeding right now but instead I’m reading blogs. 🙂

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    1. I still love to garden but I’m rapidly losing control of the weeds. It seems every time I clear a bed another batch pops up elsewhere. Spending a day on my hands and knees means the next three days I can’t, so I think the weeds are going to win.

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      1. I’ve begun pondering how I’ll deal with it all when the day finally comes that I just can’t do it anymore. I think I’ve arrived at an answer: mulch. Normally, I hate the stuff, but last fall, after many failed attempts at creating some low-maintenance curb appeal, I finally had a landscaping company come out and do it. Where there was dirt surrounding the plants and bushes, there’s now mulch. A few weeds still pop up, but waaaay more manageable.

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      2. I used to mulch every year. Endless bags and hours of back breaking labor. Then, the year I blew out my knee, my helpful husband decided he would pitch in and clean out the beds in late fall. I thought that was great! Until I realized he raked all the mulch out as well. Now? Weeds.

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