Last week I had to trim some large dead limbs off of what is normally a very hardy privet in the understory woods section at the back of the yard. I have been told by neighbors that the first owners of this house had quite an exotic jungle of figs and fruit trees back here, now the lonely remaining privet shrubs grow under the various native hackberry trees.

I'm still digging and clearing beds, transplanting things, mulching, getting the yard ready for a friend to water for a few days next month. I spread a bag of corn gluten meal in areas that needed fertilizing. I haven't been good about doing annual or semi-annual fertilizing, but I do foliar feeding and drenches in the gardens during the growing season.

Lots of peppers this year, eggplant, tomato, squash, okra, potatoes, herbs, and I'm moving the crowded daffodils and iris. I've given away hands full of some of these things to neighbors.

SRS