This is pretty much what the up-top-out-back looks like in March. Tall
ornamental grasses choking the undergrowth. Some of this stuff grows
beyond 20 feet tall. And there is LOTS of it. The photo on the left is
a small corner of the job we face every spring. The granddaughter is
digging about to see if anything is coming up yet.
This ornamental grass has stalks as thick and hard as bamboo. It requires
a chain saw to cut it down. After it is all down, it takes several days to
rake it up and move it out. I've found that if we break up the stalks,
we can line the 'paths' with them and not too much later it turns itself
into mulch. Yes, one could say I am lazy but wholey smokes you should
see how much there is to move!
To the right is the same scene after the tall grass has been cut down. Oh
look... a doe, a deer, a female deer. Probably wondering where all that
grass has gone.
Clearing out last year's growth and the leaves that blow back in the
winter is a great way to find new things you forgot were there.
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See (left) what is poking through behind a row of bricks?
Every year granddaughter #1 plants 'surprise' bulbs in the fall and I
just giggle and grin when I find them every year.
There are many things to do in the early spring that don't involve
pre-maturely putting down green bean seeds and tomato plants. They'll
just die if you do it in growing region #6 cause it will get very cold again
in April.
What else can you do while pushing spring? Well you can build a
rock path!
Since we share our environment with some fairly dense forest, we often
joke about our yearly 'beating back the forest floor..... Continued...HERE
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