Mulch, Teeth and Steppingstones

 Today is the big day! I will be glued to the dentist chair for an hour while they make a mold of my mouth and then, ultimately my new tooth. I am excited. I won't have the tooth installed today, but I am one step closer to eating popcorn!

Why is it that you always want what you can't have. I don't even like popcorn that much, but since I don't have the ability to chomp it up, I want it like nothing I have ever wanted before!

This upper garden is trying to kill me! Just when I think I can almost see completion, something happens to put me two steps behind the one step I took. I am praying that I will be able to eke out my last bag of mulch to cover the carboard. 

I have since changed my mind several times about what will surround the steppingstones. First, I was going to use gravel with no steppingstones but walked on some of the gravel I have on hand and didn't like the way it felt to my feet. Not my bare feet, mind you, but I could tell there would be a balance issue, so I decided that I needed to put steppingstones and then surround them with the gravel. Then I realized that I would come up short with the gravel I needed for the ditch alongside the driveway.

Then I considered using a different color of mulch. Then I took a good inventory of what I have on hand and realized it was right there in all my gardens ...... the sedum groundcover that grows fast, is easy to plant and I have a ton of it! Problem solved.

All the shoveling and hoeing and raking has left my back and shoulders aching. It is looking good, but I have had to lay flat to ease my back and I can read my favorite blog posts but am unable to twist around to comment. If I have something really witty, I will twist anyway. Pain does kill wit, though.

Early in the Spring when I was sorting my seed to see what I had on hand, I found some zinnia seed and could not remember how old it was. It was the dead heads I had plucked off and collected, but they felt very old and brittle. I tossed them over the side of the deck into a garden bed. I forgot about them until I saw that they had taken hold and there was a good size patch of them. They were languishing in the shade of the maple tree, and I knew they needed sun.

When I pull seedlings from the ground, I always put the roots into a container of water. It works great with marigold and now I know it works with zinnia. From that tiny handful of what I thought was useless seed I got 30 seedlings. I carefully planted a dozen in the upper garden, and the rest went into another garden that needed filling in after the sunflowers were done. I gathered all the sunflower heads and put them in a container to feed the birds.

Every muscle in my body aches, so I will go rest easy in the dentist chair now.

Comments

  1. ellen abbottSeptember 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM

    I love a good physical day in the yard but still too hot here.

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  2. Kathy GSeptember 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM

    Slowly but surely you're getting things the way you want them.

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