Our Concrete Home

I am not ready to put in my front landscaping plants. I am not convinced that the soil is where it needs to be to commit to anything semi permanent. The dirt here is full of rocks and does not have a lot of organic material. And NO worms when we started working in the dirt.  Worms are good. You want worms. I have been on a mission for the past two years to amend the soil with compost and attract worms. One thing I do is bury directly my kitchen compost into the dirt (peelings, leftover veg, rice, peanut shells, egg shells, old bread). The worms have loved it and our soil is beginning to look beautiful. My neighbor Ruthann calls these my "worm holes" I leave them open and she shares her scraps with me. I leave a compost bucket on the kitchen counter. The kiddos are well trained and peel directly into the buckets. In the first picture you can see lumpy, not loamy, soil. It has taken a while to get those lumps out and get the soil to the current color and texture. But it's...

The front yard is taking shape well! However, we still have the garden of weedn' in the back. I spent time with the girlies pulling weeds. Filled the trailer and it still never ends. I solarized two different sections in the back. Plastic down for many weeks to kill the weeds and seeds underneath (had to clear the weeds first). It worked well! I recommend. Stick with the clear plastic--better results!  Girlies with the weed harvest.