have taken away plants/trees from me quite enough. Even now, I am considering getting little signs that say something like "under protection" or, if I could make them myself for cheap, would say, "under the protection of Mom". Dd42 once made a sign for me that said, "Do not incur the Wrath of Mom" for an old Christmas decoration someone had said should be tossed, lol. I am still gardening. I know why dstepdil and dstepson couldn't get anything to grow in the large planter. It was half-filled with the sandiest, least organic potting soil ever. I actually had a hard time getting a shovel down into it. Leaves that had blown in over the top kept me from really seeing it until now. I had worried I might disturb something alive but, um ... .. no. Now it has perlite and mushroom compost and leaves incorporated. I brought manure over to it, realized I was winded, and came in to sit a bit before working that in. (I'm with Nancy and Ramblin')
The epiphany about where to put it didn't come until I had to walk away from the work a bit to dust off, and looked back. I realized there was a chance to cover the "visual" of our electric box, grounding and wires, near an often-used entrance, with the planter and its flowers.
So I'm getting closer to having the 3 most visible sides of the house looking neat. (The air cond/heat pump is especially large and unattractive because of the difficulties of changing an old house over to elec but at least it is, "plain, and doesn't call attention", which is the best thing I've heard a visitor say about it.)Our green-eyed boy came with some homegrown worms he dug and laid them in the waist-high bed where I've only found one the whole time I've been digging. He and I agree our own worms will know what to do, be better, smarter, all-around wormier. His ever-practical sister says, "they sell those at the corner store, you know".
I finally had to go in and turn the security software off; THAT I could figure out how to do.
