The landscape fabric that we put down was putzy, but it went well. I even remembered where I had stored the landscape fabric stakes that we purchased over two years ago!
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| Landscape fabric lines the Florida room garden awaiting the red cedar bark rock. The rock will look like red mulch, but it will not rot (and need to be replaced each year). |
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| The corner garden will look much better with the landscape rock, and now mud won't splash up on the fence when it rains. |
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| Hopefully, the rock on top of the fabric will prevent the dirt from saying around in the front yard. |
Once the fabric was in place, Rick started to set up what tools and equipment he needed in the back yard to install more panels under our fence where the yard sloped down. Meanwhile, I went out to the mailbox to remove the old mulch that I put in last year. Under the mulch, I found that the landscape fabric from last year was a bit ragged, so I pulled and replaced that also.
Interestingly enough, when I roughed up the soil, I found all of the rooted bulbs from the daylilies that I had planted last year. I took the bulbs and replanted them against the fence in the back yard. If they grow, great. If not, they were "found" plants that I did not ever expect to see again. We'll see if anything appears.
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| We think since everything dies in the hot, front "garden" by the mailbox, we just might leave this just filled with the red rock. |
When I finished with the front, I went back to help Rick with the fence panels. He had three panels set and ready to be installed. We noticed the last two days that something -- probably the armadillo that we suspected had been in our yard in the past -- had been burrowing under the fence. He installed the first two panels with no problem. Then things got interesting...
A bit of history: our neighbors to the north have two huge camphor trees in their back yard. Plus, when they purchased the house, the back yard was very overgrown. Probably half of the yard is covered with ferns, vines, bushes, trees, and other vegetation. A broken, overgrown pond sits in the midst of this foliage.
Rick had to go onto their property to put dirt on one side of the panels that we were installing. As I mentioned, the first two panels were fine. With the third one, I was in our yard putting dirt around our side of the panel. Rick was in the neighbor's yard. He was busily working away at adding dirt to the panel when he noticed an approximately 12 inch hole was dug under the concrete edge of the old pond. As he worked toward the end of the board -- approaching the hole-- he suddenly heard a low "gr-r-r-r-r-r-r" coming from the vicinity of the hole. Rick did not stay around to see what was growling at him. He said he almost jumped right over the fence! Instead, though, he just set a new land speed record getting back to our side of the fence.
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| The north fence now has panels under it. Rick says that if his armadillo friend burrows under these additional panels, he will put in about a three-foot deep slab of concrete to prevent further visits. |
Armadillos are nasty little creatures. While they are nocturnal and generally will shy away from activity and people, if they are disturbed (like woken up in the middle of their morning nap!), they will attack. Additionally, armadillos are one of the few species that is capable of transmitting leprosy to humans. So Rick was wise to high-tail it out of the neighbor's yard.
At any rate, by noon we were finished with the landscape fabric and with the fence panels. Tomorrow we will spend the morning getting the red cedar bark rock into place. Then our gardens will be complete.
Gladys is far from finished, but at least the neighbors are starting to notice that she is getting some pretty new colorful bushes to perk up her front yard.
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