Specialty Gardening: Dollar store "self watering" containers, 0 by Jaywhacker

Jaywhacker wrote:
Speaking of flower beds.......here are some typical ridge type flower beds. This ridge I live on only has about 1 to 2 inches of topsoil over limestone rocks. The way you build flower beds is to buy an expensive steel bar 6 foot long that weighs at least 20 lbs. It has a sharp pointed end on one end and a small blade on the other. You jam the pointed end into the ground and BANG!!, you hit solid rock. It can be a huge boulder......or something smaller. Eventually you will stick the bar between two rocks and pry them out of the ground.........if possible. You keep poking and prying in whichever direction it is possible to go until you have a reasonable sized flower bed. You stack the pried up rocks around the circumference of the bed, fill in the rock holes with some decent bags of grow mix and you got a flower bed. You do that as many times as you wont to or your back willl stand.

A lady stopped on the road one day while I was working the flower beds and complimented me on how "Aesthetically Pleasing" was my arrangement of the flower beds. I thanked her profusely and then went in the house to get the dictionary to see what it was she had said. That lady actually thought I had arranged the shapes of those flower beds due to some plan in my mind. Actually I was just poking, prying, and stacking wherever it was possible to do so for as long as my aching back would stand it. But who am I to refuse a lady's compliment.:-)