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I excel at digging things up!
Apr. 26th, 2006 09:55 amBut I'm not quite so good at planting.
Since it was so nice out this past Sunday, and we didn't have a second day of Fight Workshop after all, I spent the afternoon digging out the rest of the frakking sod that the stupid builder had put down in the strip of land between our front walk and the house. This took about four hours of cutting the sod into manageable chunks, digging out said chunks with a shovel, and hauling them around to the big-ugly-ditch in the backyard where they will hopefully fill in and make it easier to mow. Oddly, all this activity made my arms and back feel better, rather than the worse I was expecting after spending too much of the previous day holding my ridiculously heavy rapier. I also got the fun of digging up a bunch of string, half-a-dozen golf tees, some really pretty rocks, and a rotting LOG. Yes, a log, along with all the other trash that the construction workers must have dumped in before they covered it all up with frakking sod! All this effort has left me with a nice potential flower bed, filled with lovely new topsoil. I have only two problems.
One, the concrete from the house and the sidewalk protrudes inconveniently into the bed, so I can't really have anything that needs to be planted deep.
Two, the bed is in shade for most of the day.
Last year, I dug out part of it and put in impatiens, which did really well, and I am planning to get some more. I just think that 15 feet of impatiens is rather boring.
Dear Gardening Type Friends - Any ideas for plants that will grow under these conditions and not look, well, boring - or need to be waited on hand and foot?
Thanks.
Since it was so nice out this past Sunday, and we didn't have a second day of Fight Workshop after all, I spent the afternoon digging out the rest of the frakking sod that the stupid builder had put down in the strip of land between our front walk and the house. This took about four hours of cutting the sod into manageable chunks, digging out said chunks with a shovel, and hauling them around to the big-ugly-ditch in the backyard where they will hopefully fill in and make it easier to mow. Oddly, all this activity made my arms and back feel better, rather than the worse I was expecting after spending too much of the previous day holding my ridiculously heavy rapier. I also got the fun of digging up a bunch of string, half-a-dozen golf tees, some really pretty rocks, and a rotting LOG. Yes, a log, along with all the other trash that the construction workers must have dumped in before they covered it all up with frakking sod! All this effort has left me with a nice potential flower bed, filled with lovely new topsoil. I have only two problems.
One, the concrete from the house and the sidewalk protrudes inconveniently into the bed, so I can't really have anything that needs to be planted deep.
Two, the bed is in shade for most of the day.
Last year, I dug out part of it and put in impatiens, which did really well, and I am planning to get some more. I just think that 15 feet of impatiens is rather boring.
Dear Gardening Type Friends - Any ideas for plants that will grow under these conditions and not look, well, boring - or need to be waited on hand and foot?
Thanks.
