Winter on the Farm

Well, I wish it were the farm. As it is, it's our little urban plot here that we pretend is our farm. Here's our Thompson Grape Vine. Hubby spent a lot of time Saturday pruning it. Now, it's ready to produce.

This one, the Red Flame (my personal favorite) still needs a little work.

Another things that needs to be done is dormant spraying. This keeps the bugs and fungus and all sorts of other junk off the trees.

This is my fruit salad tree. It's perfect for an urban farm. It's plum rootstock, but it produces, through the magic of grafting, not only plums but peaches and nectarines.

You should see it in the spring. The plum branch blooms white, the peach branch blooms light pink and the nectarine branch blooms dark pink.

And then there's work to be done on the roses. Hubby pruned most of them for me, but there were still two left to do, so I got those done. This last one was a mess. It had so much stuff that had to go.

But, we had a big pile of this at the end.

And this is what they look like when they're done!

Of course, my little camera absconder took off with the goods. It's always interesting to see what she likes to take pictures of. Usually it's herself making faces.

And here she is!

In all her glory!

I still have lots of work to be done in the yard, but I still prefer yardwork to housework. When yardwork is done, it's done. I can mop my floor one afternoon and five minutes later it's a mess, but when my roses are pruned, they're done!