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RE: Prepping the Garden!! April 2018
Nice clean up!
Does the sun hit straight on, east to west or does it only hit part of the day?
Nice clean up!
Does the sun hit straight on, east to west or does it only hit part of the day?
I forgot a most important piece of info, the hill faces south, which gets hit with full sun most of the day. The only factor against this are some of the large trees. Thank you! :)
Oh nice! Perhaps you can work with the trees? Plant around their bases.
But if they are tall trees at the bottom and taking all the light, and you own the land, cut them. Use the stumps for planters the logs for planter boxes of raised earth mounts for planting.
Hard work though.
The trees are not much of an issue, I have cleared most of the nuisance trees out of the way. (only one old maple now and I'm in no rush to cut it down) lol At this point I hope I don't have too much garden, last week one of our clients had us till up two huge spaces of their yard. Me and the owner are going to tend to it and our client has the benefit of having fresh picked veggies whenever he wants. I want to save those posts as this man, our client, means a hell of a lot to me and I have a whole segment of posting on just him. As far as ownership of the garden in this post, I do all of the work on my own (I have free rain here). I rent the upstairs half of the house, but even better is my landlord is also my boss, the owner of JJ Scapes. Being his only crew manager and air of the business when he is ready to retire, he gives me a great deal on rent and plenty of planting space. Honestly he is more of a father than a boss. I love your Idea about using the stumps for planters, I will probably end up doing just that with the maple tree when I cut that ancient thing down. As much as I don't want to add this, I am also happy to, a pre post, as a landscaper I have access to a ton of building material. I have stacks of bricks from a job I did last year and plan to make raised beds with them. and will fill them with a few yards of compost from our wholesaler. I really hope I'm not in over my head.
I wouldn’t be in much of a hurry to remove an old growth oak either.
Awesome on the living situation and the perks!
Lucky to have all the left over toys! Man that’s cool!
Have you thought about erosion control using those bricks? Once you remove trees it can be an issue.
Yes, on the slope I usually plant grass seed keep it rooted in but once the melon vines journey down i let the grass cover the melons from animals. I usually have to redo that to keep a turf, as the grass doesn't like that soil so much and the wild onions and ragweed don't do enough. lol did you mean the toys as in the swing set and whatnot for my bosses 4 year old or all of the fun earth moving and gardening tools? :)
As in the toys, I was talking about the bricks and left overs. Lol