lillilah | Gardening

It is always so deceptive how much I can actually get done in the garden in an hour or two. I think, "Sure, I can cut all this junk back." Then, I make it through like 2 meters before I've used all my time. Granted, if I just worked on the part that I intend to cover, I would probably get more done. This time, I started working near the south point of our yard and was going to cut back the shoots from bushes that were cut down. Then, I noticed how terrible all the grass that I didn't get with the scythe looked and the occasional nettles that we missed during previous rounds of weeding. So, I went back over that area with the sickle cleaned up the compost piles some more, and pulled weeds around the peach tree. Oh, well. It needed to be done.

I also looked online for sand and may actually have found reasonably priced bags of gravel. I contacted the store to see if they will actually deliver to my house. If they will, I might buy some wood at the same time. Because I always need more wood.

At the south point of the yard, there is a raised bed with a couple of monstera plants, which aren't good in super bright direct sun. Guess what we've got in summer. Yes! Super bright direct sun! So, I wondered if I could build a kind of pergola over the bed and have cucumber or something that grows as a vine on top of it to keep the big leaves from roasting. We'll see.