Gardening

Yes, it's as simple as it sounds. I have a small patch of earth that I've been trying to ignore for the last 6 years, and I can ignore it no more. I put down strips of paper years ago in an effort to keep the wildness from growing. I anchored the paper with bags and bags of wood chips. It wasn't long before new soil somehow materialized on top of the paper, and weeds grew in that shallow soil. So, I am now in the process of rolling up the weeds. I have one tree I like (a Chinese crabapple), but that is the only life I'd like to see back there. My idea is, and always has been, no maintenance. We had grass for years, and that was easy enough to maintain, but I wanted a desert scene, and the yard just spiraled downhill from there. With so many things going on in my life that are out of my control, I thought it a good time to take a little control over my little patch of earth.