Northeast Gardening: Garden Projects #8, 5 by nutsfordaylily

nutsfordaylily wrote:
Patti, your place is looking great. I love to pack a lot of things into my gardens, too, instead of just having a bunch of specimen plants. It looks sparse and neat and tidy in the spring (now), but soon fills in with barely any soil showing. Helps keep down the weeds. I love mulching, too, but don't have a lot of time. As I've mentioned before, I get a truckload of composted cow manure delivered in the spring, and I put that down as a mulch/fertilizer. I've had great results with it, and it breaks down really well by the following year.

Pam, your place is looking good. I can't remember, did you use weed killer to get rid of the trad, raspberries and such? I have sprayed a large area with Spectracide Kudzu, Posion Ivy/Oak and Other Tough Brush Killer this year. That area is overrun with mint, trad, raspberries, artemsia (I think it's Silver King) and helianthus. There was no way I was going to dig all that out of such a big area. I have more to do, as well. Will also be using that stuff on some poison ivy and green briars in the woods that we cut down, but will inevitably grow back.

Here are some pics of the work I did on that big garden I'm renovating. This was done last Sat. The first pic shows the progress I had made from a couple of other times. Slow going as there's so much to dig out. Then next pic shows what I did that day. Then the next pic shows the outline of the bed in blue, and the plants I put in in white (the peony was already there, as well as the daylily that will be moved to make space to put down stones for my pathway, which will be forking out there. The forth pic is a closer view, and the fifth is from a different angle.

Karen