Gardening: let's try this again.

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Yesterday I made my second attempt at domesticating one of the three strips'o'soil that form the front yard of le Chateau. funkyplaid gave me a lift to Sloat Garden Center, & there I bought many green things. Good luck, green things! You'll need it! For once I was known as the Black Thumb, & I'm still less than proficient at this whole gardening thang.

Here are this year's contestants on Survivor: Garden.




I will try to get some photos of the actual garden planting, too. With help from evilfb, I cleared all the weeds from this section, then put down a fabric weed barrier. Hopefully, the plants I bought will spread, covering the boring black fabric. Also, I hope they will live longer than the poor annuals I planted last year. This year's choices were driven by the criteria of survivorship: all annuals, all drought-tolerant. I hope they all thrive!

Plug: there's a new community, norcalgardening, & so far it's been really helpful. Dirt-diggers, check it out!

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Good luck with the plants. I can't do indoor plants for shit, but I sure can grow a good flowerbed. I haven't had a place I could scratch in the dirt for almost four years now. Maybe I'll put in some good time down the Shore this summer.