Projects

Ok, so this was one of my latest projects. I always wanted to "dress up" the side yard of the house. This is not the ultimate end of what I want, but it is a start. I just used my tiller to loosen the sod and moved it to my compost pile then dug way down to get the soil lighter and more ready for things to be planted. I had purchased red azaleas and some kind of low growing shrub evergreen thing that blooms white. They were on clearance at Lowes so I bought them - Ha!! I am sure I still have the tags somewhere so I can give the actual name sometime soon. I also planted four o'clocks to the left of the dogwood there. I have heard that flower gets the Japanese bettles that are on your good stuff to come to them, eat them, and then die. That is what I have heard.
Wednesday I went to the horse park and got a load of compost to put around all the stuff out front. It has been awhile and was due. It makes things look a bit neater and feeds the flowers too. Next step is to get me a bag of horse manure and make manure tea to fertilize things. I will do that a little later in the summer though, that way I kill two birds with one stone, watering and fertilizing at the same time. I still need one more load of compost this year to get everything done I want done. That is what I say now, but once I get it I am sure I will find a reason to "need" more - HA!!

I also added more planting area in the back. We are going to build a deck and this should butt right up against it so you can just look down
into the flowers.

I think growing flowers is easy, maybe it is just my attitude toward it. I like growing a vegetable garden, it is a bit more rewarding than flowers seeing as you get to EAT what you grow. You can eat some flowers but veggies are usually better. In this bed I put orange cosmos, orange marigolds, pink petunias, multi colored dahlias, red impatients, and blue lobelia. I love the mix of colors. As it grows and fills in I will take and post more pictues. It should be beautiful here soon.