Beginner Gardening: Before and After shots, anyone?, 1 by tinabeana

tinabeana wrote:
Here is the after shot: I cleared away a ton of periwinkle (vinca major tries to take over in my yard, while vinca minor behaves itself) and pulled back a couple feet of dirt to reveal what I originally thought was another stone flower bed. Turns out this is the left-side of the stone walled bed I already knew about, except the tree has grown up over the wall.

I looks like a previous owner or tenant had a load of mulch deliverd to this spot and never put it out, because the dirt mounded up around this tree and on the bed isn't like the dirt I have in other parts of the yard. I also had to pull out some 40 year old plastic sheeting that had been put down as a weed barrier: layered upon itself and with tree roots grown through it, of course!

This left-over bit of a bed is tiny (4ft x 8 in) and doesn't really get any direct sunlight, so I planted the only thing I had on hand that would work: a cut and come again lettuce patch.