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I've done the math
May. 18th, 2019 12:34 amand there is no way I can get what I want/need to do what I want in the garden this year. So I'm going to settle for just improving the soil and every month until this time next year I'm going to stock up on soil amendments. Next spring, I'll be ready!
I'm buying all that shit!
Quite literally.
On a related note, street trees. For the past few years I've been diligently writing down addresses without trees as I walk the dogs, then coming home and requesting a few trees at a time via the 311 page. And the city has been putting them in, slowly but surely! This doesn't mean people take care of the trees, and for once, my own patch of ground is not the very worst. No, that honor most definitively goes to a particular street where the developers put in the trees themselves in the middle of the sidewalk rather than at the street, and put in these enormous pits for them too. Which get totally overrun with ragweed and dog poop. (Meanwhile, around the corner, where we need the trees because of the bus stop, nothing. And the address of that shopping center is on the other street, so I can't even request the trees because you need an exact address. I requested for the houses across the street and put "also across street" in the comment box and let's hope the city figures out what I mean.)
I am sick of walking the dogs there and looking at the ragweed and trash and poop. I know from example that if you just tend the trees a little, people don't leave their trash there and rarely any poop. (There's always somebody on the poop front.) And these aren't the only trees. I'm probably being a little too optimistic about what sort of things I'm willing to actually commit to, but let's assume I am willing, starting next year, to tend those trees. I've read the city's instructions for how much compost to put out yearly (less than you think) and how far away from the trunk to mulch (further than you think)... but what sort of inexpensive plants grow well under trees from seed (or bulb) without damaging the trees? We're zone 7.
I'm buying all that shit!
Quite literally.
On a related note, street trees. For the past few years I've been diligently writing down addresses without trees as I walk the dogs, then coming home and requesting a few trees at a time via the 311 page. And the city has been putting them in, slowly but surely! This doesn't mean people take care of the trees, and for once, my own patch of ground is not the very worst. No, that honor most definitively goes to a particular street where the developers put in the trees themselves in the middle of the sidewalk rather than at the street, and put in these enormous pits for them too. Which get totally overrun with ragweed and dog poop. (Meanwhile, around the corner, where we need the trees because of the bus stop, nothing. And the address of that shopping center is on the other street, so I can't even request the trees because you need an exact address. I requested for the houses across the street and put "also across street" in the comment box and let's hope the city figures out what I mean.)
I am sick of walking the dogs there and looking at the ragweed and trash and poop. I know from example that if you just tend the trees a little, people don't leave their trash there and rarely any poop. (There's always somebody on the poop front.) And these aren't the only trees. I'm probably being a little too optimistic about what sort of things I'm willing to actually commit to, but let's assume I am willing, starting next year, to tend those trees. I've read the city's instructions for how much compost to put out yearly (less than you think) and how far away from the trunk to mulch (further than you think)... but what sort of inexpensive plants grow well under trees from seed (or bulb) without damaging the trees? We're zone 7.
