Sprucing up the driveway

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I tended to the front yard today, where bushes and plants were slightly overgrown. I pulled out a lot of vines and stuffed them at the bottom of the grass pile, where they’ll be cooked to oblivion.

The roses looked dry and their leaves were full of holes. I brought over some compost and shoveled on a ring of compost around each rose. I also pulled up a lot of tuber-flowers (flowers with thick bulbous roots that look like ginger roots) and several large clumps of lemongrass. I transplanted them to the driveway.

Before. A few weeks ago I tried distributing some soil that I had dug up around the edges. There was too much clay content and today I found baked bricks of clay.

 

I even transplanted a big weed, whose name I don’t know because I obviously just called it a weed. But if it grows, I want it around the driveway, building up life!
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  1. The “tuber flowers” are irises. They should be planted very shallowly, the tuber basically sitting exposed in the top of the soil to prevent rot. Don’t mulch over them. Good info here: https://www.almanac.com/plant/irises. You should get some pretty flowers from them in the early spring.
    The “weed” is sumac, native to the East Coast. Don’t know what variety you have there but some types, especially stag sumac, grow huge and spread, so keep an eye on it. 🙂

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