A Pound of Prevention – Confessions of an Organized Gardener – Part Two
Wow! What a Summer.
It was an amazing summer. I completed a landscaping project that I actually began back in 2005. That will be the subject of part 3 of this series. I can tell you that I was hyper-focused on the project and all of my spare time was spent completing it.
Does that mean that I let the weeds take over the flower beds again? I can happily answer that for the most part I stayed on top of them. I spent about an hour last Saturday clearing the Nandina sprouts from the shrub bed and clipping Creeping Jenny off the walk way. I also cleared them two previous times during the summer.
As I was doing the pre-season garden clean up last spring I took some preventative action that I was hoping would keep Creeping Jenny from rooting in the walkway.
I can SO relate, Karen. I have a stone sidewalk that is totally built on a sand base. And I don’t have anything so lovely as Creeping Jenny (so that’s what that’s called?). I have plain old grass, constantly fighting for it’s spot. I like the look of the sand, but maybe it’s time to switch over to pea gravel. Hmmmmmm….
As far as the overflow box goes – I’m thinkin’ that would take me about 2 days to reach that point. But maybe I should try it! 🙂