Saturday: Moved the potatoes to a big plastic pot the dog was sleeping on the potato bag! Too flat and inviting, I guess. Straw mulch on top.
Picked up supplies for a small (2) straw-bale setup in the side bed. Set up the 2 bales, topped with mushroom compost, set up soaker hose on top of compost, and more straw on top of that. Watered that all down.
Bought + planted some cosmos starts for the front bed neighbor cats stay away!
Added mushroom compost to the raised bed, where the tomatoes will go. Set up 3 walls-o-water there. New straw mulch.
Hit the bindweed in the patio with some Roundup we've been advised that's the only way to really get rid of it.
Bought and potted up a little mint plant. Bram: "Oh, hey! A mojito tree!"
Bram mowed and weeded dandelions.
Sunday: Roundup seems to be doing its thing on the bindweed. Die, bindweed, die! Now I need to pick up one of those big sprayer vats of it and do the rest.
One of Bram's coworkers had a bindweed horror story about how it had grown up UNDER someone's foundation and into the house. It has an urban myth vibe though, I think it happened to someone's brother-in-law's cousin's neighbor's mom or something.
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