DM
10-29-2007, 01:09 PM
Once again my Cana flowers really grew well this summer and attracted lots of hummingbirds. I think these flowers make a great back ground to my gardens.
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Now that we have had two hard frost, everything is dead in the garden. I always start my clean up buy removeing any stakes and metal cages i used, and also by pulling up any plastic i had down.
Once that is done, it's time to cut everything down to ground level, and nothing works better for that than my Woods rotary cutter! (brush hog)
http://www.fototime.com/24E8318071871BE/standard.jpg
It will go right over even the toughest woody stemmed plants, no matter how thick or tall they are!
http://www.fototime.com/427460F6DD9E98B/standard.jpg
And once i go over them a couple times, everything is shredded into small pieces so it will easily mulch right back in, adding green manure to the soil! You can see, the rotary cutter made short work of these canna's!
http://www.fototime.com/919BD4F518A45A1/standard.jpg
Now with the tops shredded, it's time to dig the bulbs up for winter storage...
http://www.fototime.com/9798B4D419C600A/standard.jpg
I just pop them out of the ground useing the pallet forks on my tractor! It sure is a back saver, and here's how they look out of the ground!
http://www.fototime.com/B439C6315D2DA8D/standard.jpg
Then i pick them up, put them pails and store them untill next spring where they won't freeze.
Hope you liked the picts!
DM
http://www.fototime.com/A70139061493579/standard.jpg
Now that we have had two hard frost, everything is dead in the garden. I always start my clean up buy removeing any stakes and metal cages i used, and also by pulling up any plastic i had down.
Once that is done, it's time to cut everything down to ground level, and nothing works better for that than my Woods rotary cutter! (brush hog)
http://www.fototime.com/24E8318071871BE/standard.jpg
It will go right over even the toughest woody stemmed plants, no matter how thick or tall they are!
http://www.fototime.com/427460F6DD9E98B/standard.jpg
And once i go over them a couple times, everything is shredded into small pieces so it will easily mulch right back in, adding green manure to the soil! You can see, the rotary cutter made short work of these canna's!
http://www.fototime.com/919BD4F518A45A1/standard.jpg
Now with the tops shredded, it's time to dig the bulbs up for winter storage...
http://www.fototime.com/9798B4D419C600A/standard.jpg
I just pop them out of the ground useing the pallet forks on my tractor! It sure is a back saver, and here's how they look out of the ground!
http://www.fototime.com/B439C6315D2DA8D/standard.jpg
Then i pick them up, put them pails and store them untill next spring where they won't freeze.
Hope you liked the picts!
DM