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the rear side bed was created completely on a whim. while waiting one afternoon for my girls' father to pick them up, I started digging away at the crab grass that was growing under the play castle and made good headway. we were sick of looking at the large tangle of weeds and straggly grass that grows there every year. we had sprayed the entire area with roundup the week before.
after getting all of the weeds pulled out, we starting tilling the soil and it was very nice and black and easy to work. so, when I realized that I had many more plants than I could deal with in other beds, we just started putting the "loners" in here. we amended with a minimum amount of composted cow manure.
this area of the yard is totally underwater when we get a lot of rain. we had been thinking about making the area a bog at one time but it's only wet/damp in spring; we didn't want to lose all of that square area to any more wet areas. we have planted all moisture-loving plants in this area since they can deal with being underwater for long periods of time and they suck up the water, helping reduce runoff.
2002 april rear side |
2002 may rear side unplanted |
2002 may rear side planted |
2002 may rear side planted |
| when we moved into the house back in 1999 we had not done anything at all with the yard. two years later we started investigating it's contents and found this "plow" under the lilac bush. we tried to sell it on eBay and had no takers. then we decided instead to use it as a garden decoration. laura didn't really want to use it, since it was at least partially responsible for the removal of the prairie from this site. michael thought it would be cool to plant prairie plants around it, as if to say "the prairie won in the end!" we have since learned that it is actually a corn planter but it looks pretty cool. next year we will put some plants in the cylinders. |
2002 may plow |
2002 may plow |
2002 may plow bed |
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{ back to the garden's first season - april & may }
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