Finished digging the bed around the rock!
By Gillian
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Finally, after much hard work, aches and pains, the bed around the rock is dug out! I’ll have to keep checking it to pull up weeds and grass I missed but the grunt work is done. 
I kept finding random rocks as I was digging or just around the garden so the back will eventually be more of a rockery, hopefully the rocks will help to keep soil in place too. I have already planted some of the plants I brought with me from the last house, day lilies, shasta daisies, yellow centaurea, various sedums, various lamium, and creeping phlox, to join the dwarf Alberta spruce.
Even found a home for my Green Man rock, it formed a little “cave” so I added a fairy there.
At the weekend I hope to start digging on the other side of the garden. I have a cypress and a dogwood that need planting so digging continues….
I’m also growing pots of different seeds that a friend shared with me, so they will soon need a home too.
The patio needs weeding quite badly and the grass has many thistles and dandelions to pull out, but I thought the digging should be done before it gets much warmer and the ground gets harder. All the rain we’ve had recently has been very helpful!
9 May, 2008
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you did really well gillian, loads of hard work but will all be worth it in the end
9 May, 2008
Good exercise - with a good result at the end of it all... Well done, keep it up.
9 May, 2008
Looking GREAT Gillian. I love the little fairy under the rock overhang.
9 May, 2008
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Well done Gillian! Your bed looks good; I love using rocks too! Good luck with your dandelions - I dug six grocery bags full on Wednesday, just from the front yard!! Have the blisters to show for it! Sadly, I came out this morning and there were a few more waving at me. I'm sure it was a floral "Nyaa-nyaa!". Will wrap my hand later today and have at the little yellow demons!
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