More gardening work today. I weeded the garden and tree beds. Then I covered all the tree beds with the leftover weed barrier from last year. By the time I was done with the trees, I only had enough to cover one strip of the corner garden, so I think I’m going to just leave it like that. Weeding is not that hard and I’ll have to go in there anyway to pick the tomatoes anyway.

All the fruit trees are coming along nicely. Check out these pears! I also fertilized the lawn with a summer turf builder. I’m not big on having all this grass when we live in a desert, but since it’s already there we might as well keep it up. I’m frugal with watering though — I follow all the guidelines like watering in the morning, not watering every day, mulching when I mow, and so on. Even though we use ditch water, it still isn’t an unlimited resource. If we built our own house we’d definitely do a xeriscape.