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garden pictures
Jun. 20th, 2011 05:32 pmSome pictures of what I'm doing in the garden this year. (The pictures are stored on LJ and I'm crossposting from DW to LJ; if you can't see them, please let me know.)
The potato mound, which is in the back yard, which is shady and also full of dogs. I made a windrow of sticks, filled it in with compost, stuck some potatoes 4" deep in the compost and covered the whole thing with landscape fabric. I'm hoping that the landscape fabric will keep the dogs from realizing that there is something edible in there.
It's 18' by 2' by 2', and contains 12 potato starts.
Here's what it looks like a week after a serious hail storm. The stalks that didn't get broken are all leafed out again. I must lift the landscape fabric and pile on more compost.
Here are some pictures of the strip between the sidewalk and the street, where I'm going to make a rock garden. It's 36' by 8'. I do not expect to get far this year. My first problem is this prickly bush which wants to take over the sidewalk and the driveway. It has had some previous terrible pruning. I'm starting to take out the crisscrossing, but every time I touch it I wonder, do I want this plant at all? It is extremely prickly. Also it self-layers, so if I wanted a Sleeping Beauty situation, I've got the plant material. Should I keep it?
ETA: it's a Crataegus douglasii (Douglas Hawthorn). http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/shrub/cradou/all.html says it is a valuable source of food and cover to wildlife. I guess I'm keeping it.
RETA: I was wrong about the hawthorn. It's a pyracanthus and it's going.
The potato mound, which is in the back yard, which is shady and also full of dogs. I made a windrow of sticks, filled it in with compost, stuck some potatoes 4" deep in the compost and covered the whole thing with landscape fabric. I'm hoping that the landscape fabric will keep the dogs from realizing that there is something edible in there.
It's 18' by 2' by 2', and contains 12 potato starts.
Here's what it looks like a week after a serious hail storm. The stalks that didn't get broken are all leafed out again. I must lift the landscape fabric and pile on more compost.
Here are some pictures of the strip between the sidewalk and the street, where I'm going to make a rock garden. It's 36' by 8'. I do not expect to get far this year. My first problem is this prickly bush which wants to take over the sidewalk and the driveway. It has had some previous terrible pruning. I'm starting to take out the crisscrossing, but every time I touch it I wonder, do I want this plant at all? It is extremely prickly. Also it self-layers, so if I wanted a Sleeping Beauty situation, I've got the plant material. Should I keep it?
ETA: it's a Crataegus douglasii (Douglas Hawthorn). http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/shrub/cradou/all.html says it is a valuable source of food and cover to wildlife. I guess I'm keeping it.
RETA: I was wrong about the hawthorn. It's a pyracanthus and it's going.