Beautiful Day for Watering

Came in today to do some weekend watering.  Took a few shots of the garden.  It seems like a lot of the flowers bloomed overnight.

Morgan

Hot Day

Today I just mulched and watered.  It was pretty uneventful, but very humid.  Everything is doing fine, and *knock on wood* hopefully it all survives next week.  We are supposed to be having some 90 degree weather.

Morgan

Mulching

It feels like this week has been quite eventful.  On Monday, Dave and I were weeding when large drops of rain started coming down.  We didn't mind the rain so we kept on weeding.  Suddenly, as I'm leaning down to pull a thistle, I think to myself: This rain is coming down kinda hard.  Then I see the marble-sized hail balls bouncing on the ground!  The hail didn't last long, though.  

On Tuesday the Master Gardeners came out to plant their section.  Fencing had to be put up because the rabbits are chewing on our plants.

The Master Gardener section.

Garrett and Dave looking at the new tree Dave put in.

We added a lot of perennials on Tuesday.  Dave planted the plum and cherry trees as well.  On Wednesday we finally began mulching!!  I feel like I'm a bit more excited about it than Dave, but the garden looks so clean and the plants are more defined now that we have a lot of mulch laid out.  My arms felt like Jell-O by the end of the day from constantly shoveling and hauling the large wheelbarrow up the hill by the crab apple trees.  I was relieved to finally finish that dreadful hill on Thursday.

Other than that, this week has been filled with watering, watering, and some more watering.

Morgan

June 1, 2011

Amy has been reading my e-mail. 

Vacant Lot with Pokeweed   
by Amy Clampitt

Tufts, follicles, grubstake
biennial rosettes, a low-
life beach-blond scruff of
couch grass: notwithstanding
the interglinting dregs

of wholesale upheaval and
dismemberment, weeds do not
hesitate, the wheeling
rise of the ailanthus halts
at nothing--and look! here's

a pokeweed, sprung up from seed
dropped by some vagrant, that's
seized a foothold: a magenta-
girdered bower, gazebo twirls
of blossom rounding into

raw-buttoned, garnet-rodded
fruit one more wayfarer
perhaps may salvage from
the season's frittering,
the annual wreckage.

Dave

Weeds!!

Ahh!!  So many weeds!!  I feel like we have been weeding for the past three days.  It just never ends!  And because weeds aren't enough, my Celosia design has aphids.  :(  

On a positive note, we found out that the two goldfish we adopted are, in fact, alive.  We hadn't seen them for a week, but one day they came out of hiding.  Their names are Coco and Jiggy.  If they come out again, I will take a few shots.  Garrett added some more goldfish to the pond as well.

 We cleared out a lot of weeds from the edge of the garden.

 Alex

Dave

So lately our days have been filled with weeding, pruning, and watering.  We still have more to do before I would say the garden is "finished."  Garrett also finds many new things for us to add to our list. 

Morgan

Sunny Day

I can't believe how fast these two weeks have gone by.  I also am shocked by how much we have accomplished.  Yesterday, we finished the new rock path.  It just needs to be brushed off but we are holding off to let it settle into place.

I also added a lot of annuals to the garden.  I tried to make some interesting arrangements.  My favorite part about working in the garden is having the freedom to create and design.

Today, I finished the hanging baskets.  Dave and I spent the afternoon weeding.  We have been migrating from the back of the garden to the front.  It will look wonderful when we finally mulch it.  I think that it may change throughout the summer as we find more areas to improve.  Some people have pointed out things that they would change, and we definitely appreciate the input!!

Oh! And we have some baby birds in the wood house.  :)

Morgan

Tuesday May 24, 2011

Hello, this is Dave Hicks one of this years interns for the U of MN, Dept. of Horticulture's Display and Trial garden located at the NW corner of Folwell and  Gortner Ave's. on the beautiful St. Paul campus. We are off to a great start, and hope to have our annuals in the ground by weeks end. It seems as if everything out there was just waiting for the goofy weather to end and is now making up for lost time, including the weeds. But, we are "winning" the battle presently. Stop by and see us if you happen to be in the neighborhood. I'll post some pictures soon.