I mentioned a while ago that we have a lot of stuff to do around our house. So, while Coffee is off helping Andrew with some deck-building, I decided to do my best to tackle some of the garden in our yard.
I started by sweeping up all the bits and pieces of dried leaves and twigs from last weekend’s hedge trimming adventures. That, combined with a few clippings from other plants in our front yard, filled a gigantic “yard waste” bag to the brim. I moved it into the garage and headed to the backyard.
Our backyard is an absolute catastrophe of vegetation. I find myself completely overwhelmed by the sheer volume of stuff growing there. It’s.. insane. And it’s overgrown and full of weeds and I’ve been avoiding it as much as possible so as to prevent myself from heading to the store to buy a vat of “Round Up” to spray all willy-nilly.
I am wholeheartedly against chemical weed killers. I am also not very fond of the gardening thang.
With my lovely orange and green gloves, I ripped out plants and weeds and things of indeterminate type. I trimmed hedges and shredded leaves and made stack after stack of refuse around the yard.
Honestly, after over an hour of this, I cannot see any difference other than the piles of trimmings on the lawn. Everything STILL looks overgrown and overwhelmed and insane.
It’s official: I Hate Gardening.
(But flowers and bright green leaves are still really pretty.)
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Do you hate gardening or do you hate managing an unmanageable mess?
This fall, dig everything up (maybe even rent a rototiller to get things nice and torn up) plant your bulbs and lay down mulch/bark. Next spring, sprout a bunch of seedlings in trays then transplant when the danger of frost has gone.
My mother has islands in her yard where she grows “wildflower mix” annuals that come in a can. Every spring she pulls out the larger stalks, adds mulch, turns over the soil (smaller plants and all) then sprinkles the can of seeds around. That’s about as easy as it gets without hiring a gardener.
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I despise gardening also! I’m miserable at figuring out what to plant and when and what to do with it once it’s planted. And really, I have ZERO desire to learn.
I say, hire a gardener.
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Here’s what ya do. Go to Herrle’s Country Farm Market (out the West end of Erb towards St. Agatha). Purchase some of their yummy strawberries or corn (depending on the season). While you’re there, ask for a bale of straw. Take said bale of straw home. Go to the back yard with a weedwhacker. Whack anything you don’t like. Spread the straw over everything you’ve whacked, and let it die.
I just used a bale of straw under the deck to make sure any remaining grass and/or weeds don’t survive. It’ll work for your backyard too. (Your humping bunnies will like it too.)
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