I found this small area on the side of driveway #2. I thought to myself, that would be a great place to put some flowers, we never use the driveway and it's right on the patio. I had no idea this tiny area would end up being such a huge job. Turns out it's full of rock.I spend at least two hours trying to sort out the rock. At least the dirt is pretty okay and not pure sand like there is everywhere else. However it was a much bigger project than I had in mind.
After a few hours and tired dirty hands, this is the outcome. I ran back to the new house and grabbed some plants I though would look nice there. I ended up with all of my pansy's (yellow, purple, black and a mixture) and 3 lupine plants. In this picture it looks like I killed my lupine but I promise you they have perked up since and it looks like they will be spending a long and happy life there.
By this time it was probably around 1 or 2 pm and I decided to start my other huge job, creating planting space around the curve of the patio. My fiance had the idea, which is great! So here's the before and almost after:
I'm obviously not done yet but my hands hurt too much and it was 7:30 by the time I got to this point. Another issue is that the dirt is so sandy and I bought some good dirt last night but I'm going to need to get rid of my sandy soil somehow. Not sure how you go about disposing of dirt/sand.
Today I plan to go to the community garden. I drove by last night and there are plots already planted so I'm guessing it's been open for at least a week but no one told me. Oh well, this is the first weekend I could plant it anyways. I cannot wait to get over there!
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