The Yard

We have had such busy weekends lately that we decided to stay put this weekend and attend to our crazy yard.  Some friends asked us if we wanted to join them camping this weekend.  Um, we’ll camp again, but the thought of doing it again this weekend, four hours from home…makes a girl kinda sick just thinking about it!

 

Did you guess ‘straw bale’ garden?  You didn’t even guess did you!?  We’re hip!  Harvey came home with a Fine Gardening Magazine (I know, I’m a lucky woman) and said we should try this.  So…we are!

 

 

 

  Bummer…we need another bale.  Once we get that, we water it well for a week or so.  Then we simply put soil on top and fill in the hole with soil and plant away.  No weeds!  (Except for the few thousands surrounding the bales)  : )

My big job this morning was to cut this jasmine plant off the structure.  Harvey has hated it since we moved in.  It smells great from about 15 feet away but gets overwhelming if you hang out there.  It was also filled underneath with deadness and two nests, a baseball, and some lovely spiders.  I have to say that Harv was impressed I had the whole thing down and in the garbage cans before he got back from Home Depot. 

 

Now I get to paint it!  I think it needs some fabric…?

Bye little lemon tree!  Poor little guy…just like the rest of the trees it was in the wrong place.  It just didn’t get any sun and it’s in the way for our ‘something better’ that’s coming soon!

So if the two of us can get our aching bodies out of bed tomorrow we have a busy day ahead.