Found some old pictures I took a couple years ago. It looks like we have a while to get to even this point. My seeds are ordered, along with a batch of strawberry plants, plants that I have no idea where to put. This is the scary part of January-March: Getting overly ambitious with upcoming projects. The strawberry plants shouldn't be a big deal, but hopefully I will not plan more than I have time for.
For example, one year I ripped all the sod out from the perimeter of our fence in our back yard, with the help of my wonderful husband, of course. This ended up being a LOT of flower "bed" space. Then what do you do with all that sod????? I actually turned it over and layered it with newspaper and ultimately covered it with mulch. I had read about doing something like that on garden web, and it sort of followed the principle of lasagna gardening. It worked but took longer than everyone said it would. I had my sod mounds in various places and it ultimately turned into very rich black dirt, but honestly it took a good two years to get to that point. This expanse of perimeter bed is too much to keep up with. It's hard to keep the grass out and keep a straight line, mostly because it's too much space and more than I have time for. To mulch it costs a fortune, and then I compounded the problem by planting purple coneflower and shasta daisies all over and it just looks sort of junked up by time you hit July. I've tried to pull some of it out, but my main enemy is TIME!!! I have too much going on in those beds! It will look really good for a few weeks out of the summer, but the rest of the year it's just pretty much a mess. I'll post pictures later in the summer so you can see what I mean. To keep this honest, I figure I better plan on showing you my successes and my failures!!!
