Planting a Flower Bed
I picked up extra bricks to raise up Garden #1. My wife and I picked out some plants for the long section. I borrowed a friends truck and bought a ton of soil and picked up a half ton of mulch. I had to dig up the plants that I already had growing so that I could replant them at the new level. After filling up both gardens with dirt we planted and then covered with mulch.
A quick note about the mulch. There is a yard wast dump in my town that anyone can go to and take a load if they want. Mostly it’s shredded leafs but today I noticed a pile of finely chopped wood chips. The mound was about 7 feet high and not too tightly compacted. As I got into the pile I found that it had started composting and was quite hot and steamy inside. When I got it back I made sure to add a couple buckets full into my compost pile to see if that would get things moving.
Here are the before pictures:
And after:
Zachariah
April 3rd, 2010 at 10:50 pm #
That is awesome! We have several people here in Concord that whenever they cut down a tree and turn it into chips will bring it here for free. So we have TONS of wood mulch. Not so great for vegetable crops, but good for landscape by the house and bushes.