This weekend the kids and I set about cleaning up rockville (aka: our yard full of red rocks). We are looking forward to putting some grass in someday soon, but at the moment that doesn't make the long list of first priorities!
I spent the weekend pulling out multiple four foot tall thistles that had taken up residence in the rocks and then the piece de la resistance, a 400 square foot section (see photo below!) of yard that was completely covered with a lush forest of some sort of vining weed. The vines were doing their best to suck the life out of the bush and the grapevine so I had to pull them free of each. I worked around the perimeter of the vines and ended up with an enormous snowman style roll of vines that Ben had to help me carry to the dumpster! Incidentally the grapevine is on the property line and therefore shared with our neighbors Julianne and Barb. I hear that it flowers regularly but has never produced any grapes. We'll have to see if we can figure out how to get some grapes to grow!
On Sunday we bought ourselves some new plants and a few big bags of compost and went to work on the flower beds in the front. They look a little sparse now, but should fill in with the perennials and bushes we selected. (That is if I can manage to keep them alive!)
I'm having a bit of a hard time deciding how to handle the blank dirt area of the bed. Coloradoans don't typically use mulch because strong winds do a superb job of blowing it all away. Instead, you see a lot of rock (I think we've got more than enough of that already!) or you see beds that are completely packed with plants so that you can no longer see the ground. I imagine we'll have to think about procuring some prettier river rocks or just live with it looking sparse until the plants fill in.
(Lots and lots of weeds in our dumpster. So satisfying!)
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