Saturday, April 07, 2018

The Whole 5 Yards


With a passion for gardening, we ordered a truck of that Leafgro that I wrote about in the prior post. We have a good-sized vegetable garden and I have to tend about seven various sized flower beds, the rest we sprinkle on our pathetic lawn which is really just an effort to control erosion.

Below is what half of 5 yards looks like.  (Our garden helpers are weeks away, so much of this work we have to do ourselves....sigh.)   ($200 and we will use it all.)



We are about 70% done. Since I have company next week, I want all of the chores out of the way so  I can play.

This is where it goes:






I had to do lots of weeding, some perennial dividing, etc. prior to topping the beds  with the humus and after several days I am DONE with this work. Right now, I just want an afternoon bath and a book!



But I do get a reward and some photos with which to play.



I have written before about this germander speedwell that snuck into a pot of something I was planting so many years ago and since it looks so lovely in the spring I have let it wander.  It is a polite wanderer.  It is also called Catseyes or bird's eye speedwell and we have the wild version  roaming in our lawn.  The wild version has fewer and paler flowers.



12 comments:

  1. Hard work but it pays off!

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  2. Blue and yellow are so complementary.

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  3. That's a lot of dirt, but it is sure needed to make those pretty flowers look good. Wish I had the other half of the yard. :-)

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  4. That's a lot of work! Bravo!
    Ground ivy is a lawn pest, but I rather like it for ground cover.

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  5. I had to write that down, the speedwell. going to see if I can find it in one of the nurseries around here. I'm jealous of your 5 yards.

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  6. Congratulations on getting it all done, and on having a green thumb to begin!

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  7. Love the garden images, Tabor. It has been snowing here, and apart from a few courageous snowdrops and crocus, there are no blooms to be seen. Feels to me as though this winter is never going to end.

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  8. That kind of garden work is hard, but so satisfying once it's done.

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  9. Wow...I am impressed with you. I used to dig, design and plant too. I slightly miss it, but my skin doesn't.
    Those remind me of Jolly Jumpup's.

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  10. Looks like great soil. I love great soil :)

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  11. Composting will be mandatory in VT soon although my parents always had a compost bin in the yard so I think of that as only natural and right. I find Florida far behind in all things related to caring for the environment. However, there is a compost bin in the yard behind the church I attend and I take my many fruit and vegetable scraps there at least once a week. I go out of my way to get organic produce while I am here because I really wonder how food grows in soil that seems to be nothing but sand and i can't help but suspect chemical enhancement.

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  12. While fertilizer ruins the water it does not make for bad food, at least. Pesticides are the danger and the EPA and Mr. Luxury travel have removed restrictions on pesticide use.

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