I am pleased with the results of my hard work. This small garden is the product of lots of dreaming of what I can do to make the court yard more pleasant to be in and to look at. Everything but the gravel has been moved from another area of the larger gardens. In looking for the "right size" rocks, I would pick up one and remember instantly where I got it.
Most have been moved so many times, I am not sure anymore.
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| I started out with the bricks as a border and thought this would look better |
The Yaupon roots will still be a challenge. They are under there...
"The Best Plants Come with a Story." --Maria Rodale
I am thinking of this blog as my version of the acknowledgement page in my cozy mystery books. Instead of people (except hubby, bless him) this is an acknowledgement of my tool collection. After years and YEARS of buying or being given one tool or another, I have finally found the right mix for 99% of what I do in my gardens.
First and foremost, the faithful GroundWork® green cart. The drop sides make this so multipurpose.
The perfect size green bucket. This has a solid metal bale attached with a nice sturdy I bolt. I am sure there is a better name for it. The sun doesn't seem to be degrading the plastic and the metal isn't rusting. Next the white, Styrofoam cooler. This is one of several I came home with after a trip to Wyoming to visit family. It has a handle with hook thingies to keep the lid on tightly. I keep my dry soil additives and "rustables" and boxed items in them and my 5 gallon buckets with lids. I don't have a garage or shed and needed something to keep things dry.
The frame with handles is my "sifter". Hubby came up with this idea when I was looking for a way to "sift" compost, gravel or dirt in general. It has hardware cloth attached securely to the bottom and to make it better for sifting gravel, I added a smaller size hole hardware cloth left over from making the hardware cloth pots.
I used this to wash the gravel I used that came in smallish, heavy bags.
The pink handled tools are a mallet, grubbing blade and the oval looking one is my .50 cent tool hubby picked up from a sale bin. I have 2 that I painted pink as one of them spent an entire fall and winter laying in the mulch beside the patio. Never saw it. Thus all hand tools are pink!!
The rectangle shaped piece is actually a sign from a factory or someplace. It is the perfect sized screed for smoothing gravel or dirt in small areas.
Last, but not least. My cloth sided, calf high boots. The tall boots are too hard to crouch down in the these are soft sided and not as binding. I like them so much, paid full price for a second pair for when these wear out. I learned the hard way to keep rubber boots out of the sun. They degrade and split over time.
I love this quote. We may not be considered cold climate gardening but the delusional and grandiose plans are very familiar to me.
"Really, this is the very worst time of year to be making plans. Winter in these climes keeps a person trapped inside for so long that by the time February comes around one is positively delusional with grandiose plans for the coming year." --Posted by Rundy under 'Wishlist' 2/14/04 Cold Climate Gardening
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| This wren visited every morning and entertained with call to his mate |
"There's nowhere left to plant' is not an uncommon cry and, ironically, the larger the garden, the worse that problem can be." --Joy Larkcom, Creative Vegetable Gardening, Abbeville Press, 1997
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