So this border garden, right outside of my veggie garden, was over-run with chickweed.
http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/steme.htm
I keep forgetting to take a before picture. I guess when the moment strikes, it just does and you go for it. Soooo..after a few hours of first ripping out weeds and then delicately ripping out weeds (when I both
saw and
remembered that I had planted gladiolus an peonies in this area as well), I remembered that I still had craft paper and at that moment... would rather roll it out than lay newspaper, so I did.
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Gladiolus |
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Black-Eyed Susan |
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Peony |
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Tulips |
Then, I put a mixture of composted manure and potting soil where I wished to insert plants. I put down daffodil bulbs that I never planted last year and a few pansies that I bought off of the "not quite right" rack at Lowe's. I love that rack...it is where I bought my strawberry plant last year. I have also purchased many a mum for ten cents each off the very same rack....love that rack.
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Once all of that was through, I laid the mulch and watered and tried to keep the dogs from eating the mulch! Silly puppies, mulch is for plants. F.y.i., that is why I buy the organic mulch, the colored mulch is toxic to dogs and my neighbor's daughter's dog died from eating it. So...downside? My dogs love it...upside? It won't hurt them.
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I plan on adding these to that area as well. These are trailing verbena.
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