Re: Where is everyone? Outside?

I can identify! Don't know what happened with crab grass this year,  
but it's been all over my beds this summer. Will take me months to  
clear it all, unless it cools down and I can work outside for longer  
periods. For the first time in my life will be using pre emergents.  
And of course, I HAD to order some plants to put in this fall, too.  
On the up side, my Spiranthes cernuum var odorata is blooming. I  
think it will not be frost nipped this year!

Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Sep 24, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:

>
>  I gave up on the area
> around the sycamore and went to the spot by the garage where weeds  
> took
> over the bare spot we made last year. Easy digging but oh my, we are
> going to have weed problems there forever now. That's what neglect  
> does
> for you. There is some awful weird invasive grass in there, plus
> crabgrass gone to seed, and sheep sorrel. But no sandspur, which is  
> why
> we dug it out in the first place, that's good. The soil is  
> incredible, I
> dumped about 10 wheelbarrows of sheep poo trying to smother everything
> and it has composted really well. The smothering would have worked  
> if we
> hadn't waited so long to replant - but the weeds all grew on top of  
> the
> mulch. Anyway I cleared a big swath of that and by then all the waste
> containers were full. Only about 150 feet left to go...
> I still have little idea what I'm going to do in the front yard.
> Something different has to happen because not only do I not have  
> time to
> take care of what I've got, if we don't get huge amounts of rain and
> snow in California this winter, the water available to our  
> neighborhood
> is going to get cut dramatically, more than 50% perhaps. I could just
> stop watering and let survival of the fittest take over... I have a
> glimmer of a vision involving a sparser look with some rocks and more
> Mediterranean plants but it's pretty vague at this point, mostly  
> because
> I can't envision what should go under the sycamores. And speaking of
> them, I think a gardener to keep the sycamore leaves picked up during
> the winter would help, that would take care of a huge time sink for  
> me.
>
>
> Cyndi

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