Misc stuff I hadn't noted here I don't think (this thread has been useful for me):
Things were going pretty well last year and then the tree trimmers really tore things up in the fall. There were four of them walking around for two solid days, and repeatedly raking up the leaves and small branches that had fallen, plus big branches going boom and then the tall stump going BOOM when they took that down. It made a crater.
I filled in the crater with soil, and over the crater and the worst, baldest spots (back of yard, and all four corners) I used this mat that I bought in a roll at Home Depot. Seed first, mat over it. The mat was made out of some organic dried-grass-type material and slowly disintegrated. Looked bad in the fall and through much of the winter, now it's invisible (and the grass that grew under it is denser and more weed-free than the other grass).
Also seeded again this spring, early April I think, and just used the rest of that bag to seed one more time. It might have gotten too dried out though, we'll see.
Soz--
Your time and energy is paying off--and gardens, unlike children, are never lippy or vomiting. Gardens are soothing.
They so are!
(Pictures on the previous page btw, I added 3 posts in a row and that may not be clear.)
Gardens are soothing to look at and soothing to work in -- I'm enjoying gardening, as an activity, way more than I expected to. Getting out of the abjectly clueless phase helps, and thanks again to all who have helped with that.
Phew - those pix are after and before, not the other way around.
I wasn't sure how I was going to break it to you ....
Heh!
The photo kinda smushes the greens together and it doesn't show the moss and the weeds -- it's not as flawless and lambent as it seems in that pic. Gettin' there, though, gettin' there.
Moss and weeds count - just corral them so they look like they're intentional.
Soz - it looks great! Good work! I love that red swing just hanging in the sea of green. I agree with Beth, nothing wrong with weeds and moss so long as they mind their manners and look intentional. Well, except for those which will snuff out the intentional ones - one bad garden-bed weed is (dududuuuh) grass!
Well, it's moss and weeds IN the grassy area. I don't care what's off on the side, particularly. (The virginia bluebells had just finished in that pic, I think, and I love those, but I've been going medieval on the garlic mustard's ass.) The moss is slowly being taken over, the weeds are slowly being crowded out, just have to stick with it. (I'm hand-pulling this stuff rather than doing a weedkiller.)
...and thanks again for your advice, you two, y'all are invited to a nice picnic in the backyard anytime you can stop by. (You can take the tree swing for a spin too!)
