Fence Expansion Plans

Front line:

  • Post resets
  • Swap metal gate door for wooden one
  • Expand trellis to front gate
  • Far corner could use cardboard and wood chips. Move sedum to properly flank the bench. Clear everything behind the bench (for now).
  • Wooded side, cardboard and wood chips under the chairs, bench and bucket. On the front side of the posts, cardboard and chips to prep for iris bed.

Wooded line

  • Continue to plan shifted fence line
  • Pull turf off piles, fill planter bases up, move piles (identify is shady compost is still around)
  • Plan for beautiful azalea, rhododendron, blueberry area with yarrow, hellebore, daffodils, Put in stakes to start to plan locations.
  • Move rocks into buckets (and place them certainly somewhere) to be used at a future time

Open line

  • Request 3 or more loads of wood chips, move fence line to include them
  • Start at the back corner and push the line back by approximately two feet, continue it forward along that line

Back line

  • Sort temporary gate in back corner.
  • Reinforce fencing of old farm fence
  • Decide where extended fence line should go

Garden Bed Refresh

  • Shift garden bed size of front section
  • Removal of grass between beds; pull off sod, fill planter bases up, spread extra soil on beds
  • Fertilizer options: use 2-3 lbs per 100 sq ft.
  • Add cardboard and chips between all rows

New Beds

Replanting Asparagus 

Make a mound of soil mixed with compost in your prepared trench. Arrange the mounds so that each asparagus plant is about 18 inches apart. The top of the crown should be about two inches beneath the soil surface. Spread the plant’s roots over the mound, and make sure the emerging spears are facing upwards. Cover the crowns with the soil and compost mixture until the trench is filled. Cover the soil surface with three inches of mulch. Mulching will stop weed seeds from germinating and preserve moisture for the newly planted crowns.

Adding a row before and after the new side rows. Try to remove all the grass from the growing grid area.