Garden Check In

Benedick suggested that we make gardening and yard work a hobby. Most days, we're out working on the yard and garden for a couple hours after dinner. It actually has been a pretty fun way to spend the evenings. We are renting, so we can't do anything permanent. However, the owner is an older lady who recently went to live with one of her children. According to the neighbors, not much yard work was ever done; even mowing was rare. There are lots of large bushes in the back yard, grass growing over the walk and driveway, and vines covering the fence. There's a lot of work to do, and I'm excited to already see a difference.

Here's the garden after I first started working on it. It was really just one flower bed, with a sad rose bush in the middle.

I still have one side of the flower bed empty. I am regrowing lettuce and celery from the store, and will be planting it there. We dug up then added dirt to the area beside the flower bed. Our yard is on a sharp hill, but Benedick did a good job evening out the ground.  

Two days after I planted this, our dog managed to squeeze through the wire and the wall and dig up half the garden. In his defense, the dog who lived here before used to bury its toys in there. Doctor has found about half a dozen, and din't appreciate us covering up his toy box. I did my best to put it back together, but it will be interesting to see where some of the seeds ended up.

We also found these rocks scattered around the back yard. There was enough to go around one tree out front. There's one other tree out front; we're still working on relocating some tulips from the middle of the lawn to circle around it.

We've also started a compost bin. I'm excited to see how that will turn out. We still have a lot left to do, which will hopefully keep our evenings full for the rest of spring. 

-DearLadyDisdain

I will in the interim undertake 

one of Hercules' labours