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Another Bed!
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Posted by dottygirl 4bIa. (My Page) on Tue, Dec 4, 07 at 11:58
| As I am getting in the older bracket I told myself this summer, "This is enough to take care of, do not add anymore gardens". At the end of Nov. while walking around my huge yard I thought this bed along the fence is too straight, it needs more curves. So out in the cold wind I'm laying newspaper down and quickly covering it with expensive hay (begged from my son who farms)and there is a new expanse of garden. Days after I look out the window at all that new space and what I can do with it. I can hardly wait for spring!! |
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| I also was thinking about adding more. But got to thin out my plants first. Have gone to a number of plant swaps. Got new family near Koszta. Hope she into flowers will share some with them. |
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I have the same affliction: during the summer, I think I've got as much garden as I can take care of, then everything dies down in the fall, and with the cool weather I get frisky, and the next thing you know I'm out digging up another flower bed. By the way Dotty, if all you have to do to set up a new bed is to kill the grass, I think I hate you :)
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| Don, this works great for me as the soil is good in this area and in the spring I pull back just enough to insert the plant and keep mulching with grass clippings the rest of the summer. |
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Dotty... the hillside I garden on was a dumping site for the last glacier (Wisconsin), so it's an amalgam of rocks, sand, clay and hardened loess. I have to dig out beds and refill them with good soil just to grow anything. It must be nice having actual topsoil.
Don |
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