I finally lived out my daydream of doing this . . .



I had to dig a trench first - Jeff kicked in with the shovel after I started it. Then he packed them in.

It turned out so cute. It's right down at the s. e. corner of our lot and looks out onto the street.

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When sorting seeds, do not whistle.

thats cool Carly,
what are you going to plant with them?

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"If you want to talk bollocks and discuss the meaning of life,you're better off downing a bottle of whiskey.That way you're drunk by the time you start to take yourself seriously"

Am I the only one that can't see that pic? I think my browser has gone buggy on me

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Yeah, we just discovered our proxy server is what's messing us up on certain sites/links. Now to try to figure out how to fix that <grumbling graemlin> Fooey

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Well, we're not that far from the beach, but our real problem is we're on acidic soil. Our lot has a lot of pine trees and you know how it is - pine tree land ain't grasslands, nor is it the kind of land where you do the blue hat society flower beds.

It's a woodland really, and as long as I remember that, I don't get frustrated.

When I look at stuff the neighbours have - places where there aren't a lot of pines, that's when I get hanging my head . . . really it's just as pretty as anyone else's. It's just a different kind of pretty.

I'd say it's more green stuff than anything else -and yes container gardening does work out in some places on the lot.

We've had some failures - the corners of the lot sections for one thing - it doesn't matter if you dig down a foot and add some nice dark topsoil - the clay still comes up and turns it to nice grey cracked pieces.

I expect it would take me about 5 years to really cultivate the whole lot. Although Jeff has worked as super here since the end of '94, it's only in the past 3 years that I've worked on the gardening - before that, it was non-existent - it was just a place where Jeff cut the weed/grass and raked the leaves. It was still a nice looking place, kinda' woodsy, just the same, but it certainly wasn't a garden.

There are places up along the fence where I can see someone has gardened a bit - I can tell by the way some of the old rocks that come up out of the soil are placed.

I don't know if I've got 5 years, but I figure what I do now adds to whatever the next gardener does - I'll be happy with that.

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When sorting seeds, do not whistle.

Thank you, Merme.

Today I'm tackling my rock garden (it's fairly shady). The heat is terrible.

I spent the morning looking after my table garden and I had to use my big umbrella just to do the necessary transplants out there - whew!

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When sorting seeds, do not whistle.