My wonderful landscape guys arrived early today and began to dig out that front sod bed, in preparation for my flowers and trees. Yay!! So very happy.
They made quick work of it, and were done before I came home from bible study. A lot of that sod went into a 'break an ankle' low spot, and will fill in with Bermuda grass, with no help from anyone.
I asked for enough compost to fill my veggie beds in the back of the house. But I only got as far as filling one 100 gallon bed, before I gave out. Tomorrow it is supposed to rain all day so I was prepared to cover the remaining compost and save it for another day.
Here's the first of many bag gardens. At this time it is 100% compost but I will augment it with perlite and coir fiber and fill other bags from this 'mother' bag. It's from Temu and is 48" wide and a foot deep.
Here's one coir block which I let sit in water until it broke down. It took over an hour, but we went to Home Depot and Walmart in the meantime, so no biggie. It's very fine fiberour stuff and will be lovely in the bags, holding water better than just soil.
While at Home Depot I spied these gorgeous orangey Heuchera, to insert among my baby hosta. In the white pots are Stella D'oro daylilies which will go in soon.
But this is the best part. All that weedy sod is gone, or shall I say, moved to another part of the yard. This will be my Japanese Maple tree spot, with sunloving flowers surrounding it all. So thrilled to have this emptied and filled with good compost. I can get really excited about dirt.
Here's the previous low spot. So much safer now.
And my lettuces continue to charm me.
My wonderful landscape guys arrived early today and began to dig out that front sod bed, in preparation for my flowers and trees. Yay!! So very happy.
I asked for enough compost to fill my veggie beds in the back of the house. But I only got as far as filling one 100 gallon bed, before I gave out. Tomorrow it is supposed to rain all day so I was prepared to cover the remaining compost and save it for another day.
Here's the first of many bag gardens. At this time it is 100% compost but I will augment it with perlite and coir fiber and fill other bags from this 'mother' bag. It's from Temu and is 48" wide and a foot deep. 
Here's one coir block which I let sit in water until it broke down. It took over an hour, but we went to Home Depot and Walmart in the meantime, so no biggie. It's very fine fiberour stuff and will be lovely in the bags, holding water better than just soil.
While at Home Depot I spied these gorgeous orangey Heuchera, to insert among my baby hosta. In the white pots are Stella D'oro daylilies which will go in soon.
But this is the best part. All that weedy sod is gone, or shall I say, moved to another part of the yard. This will be my Japanese Maple tree spot, with sunloving flowers surrounding it all. So thrilled to have this emptied and filled with good compost. I can get really excited about dirt. 
Here's the previous low spot. So much safer now.
And my lettuces continue to charm me.
I love knitting socks. It's my favorite "idiot knitting" i.e. the kind I can do while at church knit night chattering with my friends. I'm about at the spot where I have enough hand knit socks I don't have to wear store bought unless I'm exercising or doing something really dirty. But I'm also about due for another pair of frankensocks with all the leftover bits of sock yarn!
ReplyDeleteThat planter is excellent. Perfect place. Are those a few iris from the previous planting? I know you dug up some stuff to save. I am behind. I was going to clear out the south planter of weeds yesterday but then it rained. And rained again. Off and on all afternoon. Nothing in the forecast said rain. It was a surprise. We don't usually get surprise rain. More like surprise not going to rain at the last minute. My seeds don't seem to be doing much so I'm going to start another tray only with tomatoes and Spring stuff.
ReplyDeleteIt's going to be great, Melody!
ReplyDeleteToday I just found your (re)blog again. I am SOOO happy to see you posting again. I just didn't get the same vibe from those other social media sites. I love that you're sharing yard work, and that Dave is back with you. I look forward to visiting more with you soon.
ReplyDeleteHuge progress with your garden!! I'm looking forward to see this progress and the plants growing and flowering. Hope the vegetables do well!
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