It was 55F outside at 8AM on Friday morning, so I got out there and got started on the gardens. This area of the 1st Fence garden had been ruined during construction. It also had a lot of erosion from the gardens around the porch washed into it.
So I first set about removing the extra soil and putting it back in the gardens where it belonged. Then I cleaned out a small amount of the garden, as that had not been done last year.
I got some more daffodils from the last pot of them in the Big garden and filled the holes in this area.
I decided that making a new garden would use up more bulbs than clearing old gardens and filling in holes of bulbs that had died. So I started working on the New South garden.
The promised wind arrived around 9AM and while I had warm sun, the wind just wears me out. So when I had to go deal with the splitter/truck issue just after 11AM, I quit outside. I was just too sore and tired from a week in the gardens to work in the wind all afternoon.
The wind was bringing winter back to New England by Friday night. It’s to be cold and VERY windy on Saturday. There might be a day or 2 over the next 2 weeks I can work outside again, but mostly it’s to be cold and either raining or snowing.
My brother and 2 volunteers are coming on Saturday to split and move wood. I am planning on making a huge beef stroganoff for lunch and keeping the stoves going so they can warm up as needed.