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hudebnik ([personal profile] hudebnik) wrote2009-11-04 12:55 pm

gardening

About a month ago we ordered a couple of quince bushes to put in the front lawn. They arrived yesterday (the nursery doesn't ship until they go dormant in the winter, or something like that), so I decided to plant them first thing this morning.

Planting quince bushes is not particularly complex or difficult, but removing the previous occupants of that space -- a pair of 20-30-year-old boxwood (?) bushes was decidedly more involved. I got the second baby tree into the ground around 11:15, then started cleaning up. I have now had lunch -- a sort of desperate get-food-into-my-body-before-I-crash affair -- and it's nap-time. There are pictures, but I'm too tired to deal with uploading them right now.

[identity profile] ubiq31.livejournal.com 2009-11-05 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
If those were boxwoods, I can offer a good removal method based on experience.

Trim it down as much as you can, then tie a 55lb hound to it. Despite it seeming very entrenched, you will before long have the root system removed (and an anchor of sorts trailing after a dopplering hound).

[identity profile] hudebnik.livejournal.com 2009-11-05 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
That would be a hound that did not react by lying down to take a nap?

[identity profile] ubiq31.livejournal.com 2009-11-05 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Being a scent hound, I can only imagine there was some sort of something to smell somewhere...