It just keeps raining. This has some benefits.
Continue reading “05/26/2025 water season”Goodbye, bermudagrass
Hello, new beds and more buffalograss! Our plan has always been to gradually decrease the mowing area of the yard. Ideally before our third-hand ancient lawn mower dies. Which we successfully sold in late 2024. This post covers from 2024 to 2025, our first year without the lawn mower.
In conjunction with putting in the first of four new raised beds, we also determined we will move the Salvia greggii in front of the new raised beds so we stop having to trim them mid-summer to be able to access the vegetables in the existing raised beds. You’ve seen them in the new place in recent posts.
We also replaced all the grass and non native forbs between the Salvias and the curb with buffalograss. Since the salvias get a good 3 ft wide, this will leave a path about 4-5 ft wild at the curb for us to roll the garden cart along and people to get out at the curb if needed.
The triangles between the existing edging and the new raised beds have become beds with Antennaria (pussytoes), sensitive briar (Mimosa), Baptisia bracteata, and gramagrass.
We will probably keep irises by the mailbox. Since essentially no pollinators visit them, it makes the mailbox extra safe for any postal people who might have bee allergies or fears thereof. however, we’ve since dug them out and replant them to ensure it doesn’t become a refugia for Bermudagrass to attempt to re-colonize the yard.
Continue reading “Goodbye, bermudagrass”03/28/2025 last year paying off
I am so behind on posting, so I’m going to post this one draft from March then jump straight into April. April’s almost gone????
Continue reading “03/28/2025 last year paying off”03/17/2025 leaves pushing up
Excited to see some newer friends emerging.
Continue reading “03/17/2025 leaves pushing up”05/05/2024 giving up
I’m too far behind on photos to put on blog so I’m wiping the slate clean. (I will catch up on the spreadsheet though haha.) you can see how much is happening even today!
Continue reading “05/05/2024 giving up”05/04/2024 great restraint
We went up to Native Plant Nursery of Oklahoma City today to help the Chef’s mom add some drought tolerant native plants to her garden. We got her six plants but we stuck to our personal list and thus got only one! We feel positively responsible.
The people staffing the nursery were helpful and knowledgeable and willing to brainstorm ideas with us. (Especially helpful since the Chef’s mom lives a bit away where some different species can grow.)
Continue reading “05/04/2024 great restraint”04/20/2024 Saturday puttering
After a bit of rain this morning (maybe a tenth of an inch?) it was cool and humid and cloudy all day.
Continue reading “04/20/2024 Saturday puttering”04/20/2024 dry spot green
I have the green section of the rainbow garden populated with Arkansas yucca, green milkweed, antelopehorns milkweed, whorled milkweed, sand lovegrass, and maybe comet milkweed if any of it survived. I’ve been examining the milkweeds closely lately.
Continue reading “04/20/2024 dry spot green”04/14/2024 summer suddenly
It got warm suddenly. We got several new plants at a native plant sale yesterday but only planted one in the dark — it’s too warm and windy. We put the other two in this evening. Hopefully the forecast rain tomorrow night actually happens!
Continue reading “04/14/2024 summer suddenly”02/24/2024 onions and a new raised bed
We’re adding four new veggie beds in the front and we got one in on Saturday.
Continue reading “02/24/2024 onions and a new raised bed”