Comments on: What a Garden Project in Progress Looks Like

By: azurienne

azurienne — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:28:26 +0000

After reading your watering can article, I poked around a bit on your blog. I love this article — I’m not alone!!!! My husband thinks I should carry a basket around with me when weeding to keep things neat (he’s not a gardener, he’s not a neatnick!). Ha. My weeds also get thrown over my shoulder, fall where they may. Just as much work to clean up, but who’s got the patience to properly dispatch them at the time? If I had a nice tool cart, it would always be empty — mine are scattered all over the place when I’m working. Your photo was so accurate of a gardener at work (or play, as it may be).

I live in the Alps behind Nice on the French Riviera (well, somebody has to live there), and my weeds are vicious. Lots of blackberry brambles, wild prunus, acanthus everywhere, not to mention all the viney weeds the grow overnight in the spring (I don’t know any names of weeds, saving my memory for nice stuff). I like the term “yardening” I’ve seen recently, I think that fits what I do much more than genteel “gardening.”

By: Red Dirt Ramblings » Blog Archive » Compost: The Dirty Underbelly of Gardening

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:24:18 +0000

[...] of my pledge to keep it real, and influenced by Margaret at A Way to Garden and Kathy at Cold Climate Gardening’s realistic posts, I’m showing you my garden’s soft underbelly. It isn’t all blooms [...]

By: Blackswampgirl Kim

Blackswampgirl Kim — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:46:23 +0000

You know… I hate to admit it, but my garden looks like this an awful lot. Whether I am in mid-project or not!

By: Jane Marie

Jane Marie — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:24:38 +0000

The weeds ALWAYS come back. Sometimes on the same day that you pulled them, it seems. That’s the most frustrsting thing about gardening.

By: Kathy Purdy

Kathy Purdy — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:18:00 +0000

wiseacre, it was nice–for a while. (See the Wicked Beauty post linked in the sidebar.) But sooner or later the hand of the gardener wants to try something else. And all those wild beauties still grow in the hedgerows and ditches.

By: wiseacre

wiseacre — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:54:58 +0000

I’m laughing because that’s what my projects look like when I’m done.

Ugh – Garlic Mustard. Otherwise your ‘wildflower’ garden sounded nice.

By: dlyn

dlyn — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:30:10 +0000

Looks like home to me Kathy – and weeds coming right back sounds like home!

By: Catherine, MyGardenTravels

Catherine, MyGardenTravels — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:16:32 +0000

A couple of years ago I had to downsize my garden. It’s always tempting to start another. I just have to look forward to ripping my established gardens apart every so often. If only my wrist and back would hold out.

By: Kathy Purdy

Kathy Purdy — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:21:48 +0000

Ted, this isn’t a new bed so much as finally getting around to a section of an already established bed.

MSS, for that reason, the tiller would not have been a good way to prep this bed. It was only about a 6 ft. wide section. The tiller is too big to maneuver in such close quarters. And there were a lot more rocks than you see in this photo. I think I had already picked up two wheelbarrow loads when this photo was taken.

Kim, I’m fighting bindweed myself in another bed.

By: mss @ Zanthan Gardens

mss @ Zanthan Gardens — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:41:35 +0000

That’s how my garden ALWAYS looks.

Wouldn’t the tiller come in handy for prepping the new bed?