foreboding.
The new house is on a double lot, which of course means that I am ripping out half the yard and replacing it with garden. The back part of the yard is plenty large enough for a hammock and for the kid to charge about it, so the entire front will be flower garden. (There's the remnants of an herb & vegetable garden tucked behind the house, so I'll be reviving that, too.)
While nlanza was getting the kid to bed, I was outside doing horrible things to two of the patches of lawn that are not going to be lawn anymore. I'd covered them with leaves last fall, and to one of them tonight I added more decaying leaves, a generous seasoning of compost, and newspapers weighed down with rocks (there was a rock edge around the shrub border; I pulled it out. I'll do something else with those rocks later, but for now: newspaper weights). The plants for that won't arrive until the end of April, by which time the lawn under all that will probably have given up the ghost.
Another patch of lawn just got more decaying leaves all over it; the light was going and anyway I hadn't pulled up its rock edging yet.
The front of my house looks awful. I'm sure it'll be nice in May, but right now I'm glad of the privacy fence. My hope is to get at least one of the sun beds and the raised shade bed into good shape this spring. We shall see.
While nlanza was getting the kid to bed, I was outside doing horrible things to two of the patches of lawn that are not going to be lawn anymore. I'd covered them with leaves last fall, and to one of them tonight I added more decaying leaves, a generous seasoning of compost, and newspapers weighed down with rocks (there was a rock edge around the shrub border; I pulled it out. I'll do something else with those rocks later, but for now: newspaper weights). The plants for that won't arrive until the end of April, by which time the lawn under all that will probably have given up the ghost.
Another patch of lawn just got more decaying leaves all over it; the light was going and anyway I hadn't pulled up its rock edging yet.
The front of my house looks awful. I'm sure it'll be nice in May, but right now I'm glad of the privacy fence. My hope is to get at least one of the sun beds and the raised shade bed into good shape this spring. We shall see.