I worked in my yard the first couple of weeks in May. Then, I got sick. Not horribly. But, a cold that refused to run its course. Then, I had to prepare for, and teach, Fun with Friends. Peter was here, too, and went back to Fort Worth last Sunday. On Monday, I put on my gardening gloves and went to check things out.
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- This is the photo from May, after I’d worked in the thyme garden, adding a couple of new varieties. Then I got sick.
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- This is what the thyme garden looked like last Monday. That part in the lower right-hand corner all the way around to the newest plants (the Summer Thyme and Winter Thyme) were all over run with WEEDS!
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- This is how it looks now. All orderly again. Those weeds do love an empty space.
There’s been a liriope border along the edge of the garden since, I guess, 1959. It just kept widening and widening and widening, a little bit at a time. After a particularly drenching rainfall, I used the garden fork to dig up about half of it, from one end of the garden to the other. The pieces came up pretty easily. Quite a bit of dirt/mud was attached to the roots, and I tossed it all into the green bin, filling it up. When David took the bin out to the curb the next Monday morning, he asked whatever was in it. “Lots of liriope,” I said. “And quite a lot of dirt.”
I had a nice, 12-inch space along the inner edge of the small liriope hedge.
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- Here’s what I found this week when I was finally able to get out to do some gardening work. All that tallish, leafy green stuff between the liripoe and the Asian Jasmine? It’s weeds!!
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- I pulled it all up, and now the Asian Jasmine is starting to make some inroads into that space. I can tell that I’ll have to keep an eye on it.
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- I needed some large rocks for Geology day at Fun with Friends, and pulled them from the boundaries around the various thyme varieties. I brought them back home and put them back where they belong.
Now I might be able to work a little every morning in upkeep mode.
Meanwhile, from last week:
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- On Physics Day–Tall Painting!!
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- We used Chemistry to clean some pennies.
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- We used a Balance Scale with large rocks and pea gravel.
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- And in a really interesting turn of events, the boys were intrigued with the Balance Scales and the rocks, while the girls were more interested in gluing pebbles to create designs.
And in case you wonder why more kids’ faces aren’t visible, I only have parental permission to put Peter’s photos up. I respect the privacy of other folks’ kids and grandkids. However, I do have permission to post this video.
Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them.
Psalm 111:2 (New Revised Standard Version)
It’s important to keep putting information into kids’ heads, to help them learn to think, and to help them develop interest, to be delighted by all the fascinating things that they, and we, can learn.
* Aristotle