Prabha Manda’s Blog

Perils of Gardening and such – 1

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Having spent so much time and energy on my garden, thought I could write more than just one blog, maybe this one will continue for a while! Just got back from another session of sweat drenching gardening. I went out at oh 6.20 in the am, to mulch my vegetable garden, thought that would keep off the grass that had grown last year and bugged me for the duration of the vegetable season. So this year the attempt is to lay newspaper and then over that, mulch. We [husband and I] did a good job by mulching as soon as we had planted the pepper area, but for one reason and another we didn’t get to the rest of the area. So, inspired by the progress that we had made on the front landscape , I finished the mulching of the vegetable garden. Some bit of newspaper is seen, but I am trusting the dear Dr Sun to pale it out and make it go into the background. Then I decided to use up the remaining manure and mulch in the front landscape around the rose and newly planted shrubs etc to keep ever hated Bermuda grass at bay. I however had to run some errands and a lack-of-continuous-sleep-so-cranky toddler kind of drained me so I gave up mentally on doing that. But after a brief nap watching a MGR Tamil movie, I was invigorated to venture out into the Golden [albeit burning sun], I did manure[I've made a verb out of manure for my convenience] and mulch some plants. Today’s job is done! I must add a note that I did not include yesterday, we have been bugged by this creeping grass that is called Bermuda grass that very villainously had grown beneath the weed sheets and more than 4 inches of rock , that my husband had painstakingly added to the front landscaping last year. I cannot believe how pointy the grass is while it pokes through the holes in the weed sheet and then spreads around. It really seems evil! A little week after we had cleared out the area and done the above mentioned task the sheet had risen [lo and behold], because of the thriving grass below. It was disappointing. We have tried to amend the area this year. If it works I will let out the secret. To top off the disappointment, our neighbors both front and back had had no problems with this grass, I am thinking this might be because of Sun sun Mr golden sun, that shines on that area, the problem area faces south and both theirs faces North, maybe that makes a difference. oh also, we have no tall trees at all. Hmm, writing all this is leading to explanations I didn’t think of before.
Anyway, tata for now!

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