Gardening

The Earth seems to choose and we have to bend to her will. I've been gardening for all my life and every house has had something different. This house has a one acre garden behind a deer fence (that has since gotten some holes) and I planned a walking garden that would meander through garden rock beds with chairs and benches scattered through out. No one told me that gardening in the Ozarks consists of mowing mowing mowing. I've been trying to kill grass ever since we got here, but it is so pervasive that I'm now solarizing one bed to try and kill some of the grass that crept under the 20 year weed barrier mat and took over the entire bed. I'm turning it in the fall and then will cover it again until next spring and hope there will be space for veggies.

But one thing I did discover, natives are the best for your garden. They survive where the lovely exotics are just expensive experiments. Good luck and keep adding to mix and in time, it will look like that cottage garden, but with local flowers.