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Early spring Saturday garden chores/exercise
It's a Saturday, and Spring Break! What a relief to not be hustling around to prepare materials for the coming week. That will be next weekend. Let's see what's on the agenda. Limbs. It's only been 2 weeks since the last pick-up-sticks, but several extremely windy days have rendered this task necessary again. Fortunately the Rhododendron hating oak hasn't damaged anything yet this spring. Leaves. A leaf barrier fence was erected around the west side of the pond to keep leaves from blowing in, at least some leaves, so now the wind-row of leaves needed to be removed from the fence before the fence can be removed. Asparagus. Time to cut off last year's aerial shoots in preparation for much anticipated goodness to follow shortly. Woodchuck. Drat! Newly dug-redug burrow under the garden shed indicates a new resident. Capture and relocation is the only viable control measure, but this is gosh awful early for them to be active. Trellis. A fence repair project requires that a clematis be retrained this year onto a trellis to allow the fence to be removed and replaced. Because of gardens along both sides of the fence are gardens, the contractor must be very mindful of plants and not just trample them into oblivion. We gladly pay more for plant watchfulness. Neighbors are readying bicycles for some spring exercise, and surely it will be grand, but when they are exhausted what will they have accomplished? If only they would try the Phactor's exercise program. First, limbs. Bending and knee bends and lifting. 1, 2, 3, ..... 100 or more reps. Next, leaves. Twisting, and pulling, and reaching. Keep that rake moving! And so on. And what a difference! With my exercies program, things get done. Oh, yes, always blog about garden exercise before doing garden exercies. But now it's time for a coffee break!
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