Beginner Gardening: What steals your time in the garden?, 1 by ge1836

ge1836 wrote:
.Good morning
In reguard to body failure
,cutting back on the gardening
making things simpler with the use of weed barrier.
Welcome to my world
I would say go for it.
BUT remember all the griping I have done for 2 years about making new gardens here.I have pulled up miles of the stuff.HATE it with a passion.
It was laid down 20 years ago when the tract was built.
The barrier is under the entire mulched area seen in these photos.
There are areas where its quite deep and I can plant over it,but mostly I have to dig it out and use a box cutter to remove it in small pieces.
This is the area along my neighbors line where I have done the most work.
This border is 75 feet long and 10-20 feet wide with trees down the middle.
First pic was 2008,the first year I started the ShadeGarden.1 tree was removed that year( Bear is on the stump).
Second pic is June of last year. Big difference you must admit.
As my body ages I want to be able to sit on the deck and gaze at the garden,I probably will not win a neat garden award because its just too hard to weed and bend over to plant and dig holes for plants, thats why the garden is crammed to cut down on weeds.