ReDoing, Creating, Maintaining Garden Beds and Paths

Category: Starting and Maintaining the Garden | Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2014 6:25 am

Mild weather has helped me to trek out into the yard. With the filbert trees gone....kind of (still have large trunks to deal with) I started planning beds. Moved a lot of hellebores, ferns, and trilliums last summer fall. The trouble is I am not sure exactly where I moved every plant and found a few in unexpected spots. Then as I was organizing last summers photos I realized I had moved/planted a skimmia japonica almost on top of a hosta. Will wait until spring to find out exactly how close.

Hostas during summer ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

Skimmia moved to same bed..oops ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

Got cardboard and mulch covering the one almost emptied bed. There was a lot of sweet woodruff that is being smothered. There was a path running through this area so I hope to have two veggie garden beds dividing it along the old path. Two blueberry bushes were placed in a front corner where hellebores, Pacific bleeding hearts, still live.

Remade woodland bed for veggies ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

Should move another large sword fern to continue the bed redo. It is just a lot of heavy work so I am procrastinating. Would give me one more place for another blueberry bush.

The filbert trunks were drilled, holes filled with epson salt, and covered to block out all light. They look awful. I wanted to uncover one and see if it was working, but will forgo the impulse until late spring or I have lots of extra energy.

Last summer I started collecting cinder blocks for a raised bed. I laid out the ones I have to judge how many more I'll need.

Plans for a raised veggie bed in the making ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

I didn't harvest the bamboo the last two years. While out working on other projects I noticed ithe bamboo was starting to run. Not a good thing. Thirty years and now it is deciding to get naughty. Oh well, some heavy pruning is definitely needed. One more chore to add to a very long list. Want to move some phlox to fill in some late summer flowering holes, weed out some buttercups, clean perennials out of the paths, remulch paths that are getting muddy, hedging some ivy fences, divide perennials and that is just the back yard. Whew!

Lots to do. Hope your gardening work is light, and that it has all the results you want.

Last summer's surprising successes ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

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Netty wrote on Thu Jan 02, 2014 1:54 pm:

You have just reminded me of all the work I have to do in my gardens this spring! I wish I could tell you that we are having mild weather too, and that I am out in my gardens. Sadly, the temperature outside right now is -25Â°C (-13Â°F)and there is a thick layer of snow. It's great that someone is able to work in their gardens. You sure have been busy!

Kay wrote on Thu Jan 02, 2014 3:07 pm:

Hi Jewell! Wow You are still busy out there? Lucky to have that mild weather. We are buried with snow and very cold. Your gardens look so nice, and will always be improved because you have so many ideas!

Jewell wrote on Thu Jan 02, 2014 6:22 pm:

Netty and Kay, all I can say is "Brrrrr". Luckily you do get four seasons to make your lovely gardens flourish. We have two, spring and fall. LoL

Carol Ann wrote on Sat Mar 29, 2014 3:23 pm:

The raised veggie bed is what my son had last year but not cement like you are incorporating. His is just bits and pieces of lumber his shed.

You have a real garden . Never seen one made like this. Interesting.

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