I finally got outside in the garden late this afternoon but didn't do any big huge chores. The ankle I sprained just before the holidays still easily pains me on uneven ground and frankly I was just feeling lazy and not wanting to get all sweaty and dirty either.
I did get my three rose bushes out front pruned though. In the recent huge high winds we'd had earlier this month, I had quickly cut off the tallest branches so they wouldn't break. These are incredibly beautiful long-stemmed pink roses, a birthday present from my parents a few years ago. I have them in front of the living room window and rarely cut them to bring them inside because I can see them so often from the front of the house, standing tall in all the glory--probably reaching up to 6 or 7' feet tall.
In the back, I did the quick vegetable garden cleanup finally, too lazy to change out of my regular tennis shoes though, so stepping carefully and just doing a bare minimum there as well. I cut down all the green plastic tomato tie stuff and threw it away, then pulled up a dozen dead tomato plants and put them in the compost pile.
That was it.
I ignored the weeds that are encroaching. I ignored the leaning wire trellis like thing that I use to climb cucumbers and such up, which is leaning perilously away from the fence and needs to be attached somehow.
The broccoli appears to be done. I certainly did not harvest as much as I expected from them. Hardly worth the effort really.
The brussel sprouts are visible, but too tiny to pick I think. The largest are just 1/2" around. The cauliflower is leafing wondrously but I see no signs of an actual cauliflower. The garlic is doing well.
I have lemons and oranges to pick and enjoy from the trees right now. What few apples I had left all got blown down in the heavy winds we had and it was too wet and stormy for me to bother trying to gather them up then, so now they're compost.
