Home Improvement
Mar. 15th, 2004 08:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madbakerCut for those with no interest in reading about our yardwork...
Spent quite a few hours yesterday weeding and planting on our 45-degree hill. Some native grasses (fescue and needlegrass) as well as some more ornamental erosion-control plants, such as CA wild lilacs. (One of the ones we bought is native only to a small area outside Hearst Castle. I thought that was kind of neat.) We were hoping for milkweed, to attract butterflies, but despite the weather it's still a bit too early.
We also moved fifteen (or so) broken cinder blocks from the base of the hill. I think they were thrown there, rather than placed to hold back the dirt. When we moved in, there were four broken ladders on the hillside as well... I'm mildly surprised we didn't find a rusted-out car on blocks.
Yerba Buena Nursery is a neat place, but their plants add up quickly. The nursery is 40 acres out in the middle of nowhere (off Skyline Blvd) and feels like it was a hippie burnout commune. "Dude, I've got this killer idea - let's grow native plants! Pot is native to Humboldt, right?"
There's more hill to cover but we need to wait a bit for the bank account to recover. We're going to try sprouting some fescue from seed; if it works, that will allow us to nearly cover the hill affordably. Here's hoping!
What I'm reading: Richard Morgan, Altered Carbon
Spent quite a few hours yesterday weeding and planting on our 45-degree hill. Some native grasses (fescue and needlegrass) as well as some more ornamental erosion-control plants, such as CA wild lilacs. (One of the ones we bought is native only to a small area outside Hearst Castle. I thought that was kind of neat.) We were hoping for milkweed, to attract butterflies, but despite the weather it's still a bit too early.
We also moved fifteen (or so) broken cinder blocks from the base of the hill. I think they were thrown there, rather than placed to hold back the dirt. When we moved in, there were four broken ladders on the hillside as well... I'm mildly surprised we didn't find a rusted-out car on blocks.
Yerba Buena Nursery is a neat place, but their plants add up quickly. The nursery is 40 acres out in the middle of nowhere (off Skyline Blvd) and feels like it was a hippie burnout commune. "Dude, I've got this killer idea - let's grow native plants! Pot is native to Humboldt, right?"
There's more hill to cover but we need to wait a bit for the bank account to recover. We're going to try sprouting some fescue from seed; if it works, that will allow us to nearly cover the hill affordably. Here's hoping!
What I'm reading: Richard Morgan, Altered Carbon
