I gotta say, I am not loving our lot as much as I thought I would. We love that no matter what we will not have close neighbors but it is huge and sometimes I want to just cement the whole things and be done with it. But these are some things we have been battling and enjoying.
Weeds. I hate them and don't know which one is which. I only know two weeds coming in my yard by name so my hunt for a good weed book (hopefully from the library) is going to begin soon. We got weed killer for the lawn and the weeds in the back and then our landscaper told us some other things to do. But hopefully I can get a leg up on them. I just can't weed with the kids out there because we have small cliffs and my kids are too involved climbing the rocks to notice how lethal that is.
Grasshoppers. Thanks to my awesome parents I killed a flying grasshopper with a rock yesterday and it was awesome. I have killed a bunch and put out some poison so hopefully that will help. I read on the USU extension page that grasshoppers are supposed to be bad for a few years. I think I will get some powder poison and spread it casually in the emptiness behind us.
All my plants are blooming with small fruits on them. The peas and carrots are done I think. My pea plants have dried up. Some of my onions are starting to fall over which is awesome to watch. I love the garden and am so glad we put it in a box where it is super easy to maintain.
My plants are all doing alright. One of the ash trees looks a little sad. Two of the boxwoods are doing well but the other ones are struggling. Our sunflowers are doing well except the ones that Alice steps on every time and hopefully they will survive the heat that is coming.
The heat makes it hard for me to go out and weed and do other maintenance because it is too hot for the kids outside. But some of the plants are loving the heat, like the basil is doing much better.
Next year hopefully we will have more flowers.
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