California Gardening: What's happening in your mid summer garden? , 1 by PedricksCorner

PedricksCorner wrote:
Ha, ha, don't feel too sorry for me! It is just the upper yard on one side of the house that is all gravel. You can't see it in this photo, but there is a large yard below. It was once a bare clay slope, but after working over 500 bags worth of steer manure into it over the years, it is now a lush garden that produces almost all of the food I eat.
I call this photo "My breakroom" and used to use it as a screen saver at work. The crab grass is actually very, very cushy to walk on. People are always a bit surprised! Sort of like walking on a futon. When my youngest neice was just three, she started laughing herself silly and took off so fast running on it that her mother didn't have time to react. The next thing we knew, she was rolling down the slope. That was before the fence....

This message was edited Jul 15, 2009 10:04 PM