Making Progress

I'm hoping to get the garden mostly done this week. We don't have sunshine in the forecast very much longer.

I would love for it to be sprouting by the time Rob comes home.

This is what it looks like right now. The stones making the meandering edge were already here when we moved in. I just had to move them. I like the shape they make.

I was debating whether to put down plastic and get new dirt or to just pull up the grass and plant my flowers in the current dirt, and have to deal with more weeds. I generally have an issue with paying for dirt to put in a yard full of dirt. I think I'm going to do as much as possible with the current materials before I consider buying anything else. I've only spent about $30 so far.

I also want to smooth out the dirt underneath the large square stones. I want it to sit pretty evenly. right now the dirt underneath is so uneven that some of the stones wobble a little bit. I wear heels quite often, and I don't need extra obstacles when carrying a squirmy baby.

You can see I also miscounted how many of the small grey stones I needed. I think I need at 2 or 3 more, but if I want to continue the line up the side of the stoop, I may need as many as 8 more. I will measure instead of guessing this time, though.

I planted the first plants that I chose, today, too. 3 cannas rhizomes. They grow to be 4 feet tall with broad leaves and showy red and orange flowers. They're in the box in the corner, here.

As for the primroses you see waiting patiently on my stoop, they are probably going to be planted in the 6 corners created by the stepping stones. I have 12 plants, so that may work well, or I may put 1 plant in each and find some other way of using the others. They definitely need to go in the dirt that's already there because of how deep I'll need to plant them.

I'm daydreaming of a flowering bush for this corner over here. I think I put up the photo of the bush before. I just need to get up the nerve to order it.

Part of my procrastination was from the fact that my gutters were so full they were overflowing over the front and dumping right into where I would be planting. I climbed up the ladder the other day and cleaned them out, though. Now all I have to do is ask for a spout to keep the water from coming directly down the pipe and digging a hole in my garden. I should ask maintenance here if they have any. Of course, if I had some way of curving the spout away from the garden instead of draining into it, that would be ideal.