Rock Gardening and Rock Borders

Okay! I have been soooo busy since I finally got settled into our new place. I have only been working on one section this whole time tho. The sunny area off the drive and to the side/back of our little home.

I searched out in the field and found a ton of rocks, literally. So I made use of them. The area that I worked on, had no plant life other than grass, non edible weeds and raspberry canes. The canes stayed the rest went.

So heres the tour.
I'll start with the spot against the house. There was already an rhubarb plant there so it stayed and I planted around it. Now there isn't much that I planted that you can eat or drink but there is kamomile, hyssop and then flowers. All is just starting to break thru the dirt, so I hope it won't be too too long now. Also this is a dedication bed for what i believe in and in honor of what i believe. At each edge of the borders, against the house is also planted erterblomst, i don't know the english for that but loosely translated as pea flowers. non edible. I'm hoping they will climb the edge of the house and add some color. I have little nails all ready for them to hook on to.

Next is the main area I have worked on, and it is all edible veggies and herbs. watercress, spinach for my father-in-law, dill and chives so far. I'm still working on it. lol. This took alot of time. It was only me and a wheelbarrel, since KB works alot of long hours. Balder supervised most of the time, but when he wasn't there, it was a free for all.

Heres how I did it. First i didn't weed or take out the old plant life since that will be good compost later on. I then added wood chips from over in the field that the community threw away. (Gasp) I then put a layer of good dark dirt with lots of worms and bug life in there, then a top layer of bag dirt.

I then continued to place rocks how I wanted the area to look.

slowly building up and around the dug out border.

View from the other end.

In the long end is also spinach, romaine lettuce, radish, cucumber planted along the light pole and the pea flower planted at the very very end near the pole. The section next to the raised rock bed is empty so far, only because i have peppers and tomatoes waiting to go in there.

So the over all look is this. Nothing into something, and i get to play in the dirt!

My tiny little greenhouse is waiting for me to empty it and plant the toms and peppers and a few herbs are left to get out also.

I have more herbs on the window sills that will eventually be put somewhere.

So there you have it, the reason I have been soooo busy. I love it!!!

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If you don't have faith in what you believe, then don't believe at all.

Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened! - Dr. Seuss

DB, maybe you can watch what he is doing and learn from sight as well as learning from here and the net. Hands on is always the best way. lol. my garden will change 10 times before i'm thru, then I will still be thinking what i can do instead.

Toni have you thought maybe using logs. Won't last as long, but will make awesome mulch as it breaks down. Then you can keep expanding and adding new logs. I almost did that with the rock garden, but I was informed it was wood for winter heating,,,lol. I will not touch that at all.

lol, Balder doing anything besides craving attention and eating would be a miracle in itself. That is the most spoiled dog i know. He even prefers the car to walking. What a dog!!

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If you don't have faith in what you believe, then don't believe at all.

Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened! - Dr. Seuss