This morning I'm off to do maintenance on a garden we installed in August of this year.
I am very excited to see how the plants have grown, but I am also interested in seeing;
1. if the cloth fabric we placed is actually doing it's job
2. if the succulents made it through the unseasonably cold spell we've had the last couple of weeks.
There is a lot of debate over the use of landscape fabric. It's a medium that we don't use all that often, but I do believe there is a place for it in the garden. I know it's not a cure all and it will break down after a certain amount of time, but I do appreciate how it keeps gravel and ornamental rocks from getting swallowed up by the soil. Plus, when placed underneath a path, it helps suppress weeds and keeps the stones neater, especially when it rains.
This particular garden had an old lawn that we removed first, and anyone who has ever removed an old lawn knows how much time it takes to get all the little pieces out that could possibly re sprout. If you don't know, it takes forever. We normally, with pick axes, work underneath the lawn and basically cut and roll it off, but this lawn was old and it wasn't that easy. We rented a sod cutter, but LOL!! , that was hilarious and impossible without a 200lb. person to operate the machine. Not to mention getting it off and on the truck. I mean, we're strong, but I have a lot of respect for this machine, a sod cutter is a beast!
Like I said in my post on maintenance; gardens are a place of learning and provide you a way to continuously perfect your craft.
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