Northeast Gardening: What I did this past weekend . . ., 1 by Seandor

Seandor wrote:
this is a picture of the first half of the woodland garden that I did by myself on Saturday. First I staked out a pathway wide enough for walkers, strollers, and wheelchairs between the two parts of the garden. Then I thought, "If I can just get this smaller half done today, I bet I can convince others to help with the larger part tomorrow - they just have to see what can be done"

MG! The ground was sooooo hard under those trees! And the roots! I even considered renting a power auger - but DH said it would cost too much. So, I worked on the small part by myself from 6 am until 2:30 in the afternoon. . . . which show real commitment on my part, because I hate the heat and I am normally in the house before 8:30 am!

The hostas were a gift from a dear DG member - who will remain anonymous because I don't want his generousity taken advantage of :-) I dug "containers" into this hardpan soil, then filled them with potting soil (even though wiser people than I advised against this). Then into the potting soil went either the donated hosta or columbine plants I had wintersown.

Then I created a little"fence" with bamboo stakes, twine, and bits of bright orange plastic bag that the Sunday newspaper comes in.