This corner has been a mess for a while. We have some “found with the house” pavers that the two bins usually live on. However, Bermudagrass, scourge of North America, always creeps between the pavers and into the buffalograss and rock-bordered bed to the left in the pictures. Here’s the transformation which took over a year at our pace.
Continue reading “Working corner: crushed rock path”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”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”11/26/2023 experiment for new vegetable perennials

11/05/2023 late but clearing for garlic

05/27/2023 front yard




04/16/2023 veggie area ground covers

03/04/2023 first compost ready!!


12/22/2022 big cold and bigger wind










12/21/2022 solstice chill
My Persian friends celebrate Yaldā today, a holiday for the longest, darkest night of the year. Appropriately, tonight the temperature is plunging from the 40s F into the teens and single digits and we won’t unfreeze until probably Sunday!


