Well, technically it wasn't in my garden, nor was it today, but...
...yesterday I attacked the ditch in front of the house. It's overgrown with poison ivy, honeysuckle, saplings, and other undesirables.
Last year I laid used carpet over almost half of the slope in the front yard down to the ditch, and it smothered/killed a lot of the weeds, but the ditch needed cleaning, to allow rainwater to travel down the street without impedance/resistance. We get about 48" of rainfall annually, so the ditch is important.
Here's the end of the ditch, next to the culvert pipe that runs under our driveway and to parts unknown (see it on the far left of the picture). I'd already cut back some of the saplings, vines, and weeds at this point.
That's my mailbox post on the right:
After raking away the leaves and using my hedge trimmer to cut back the jungle it looks much better! (top of picture shows what the slope looks like without carpet)
The green stuff on top of the carpet is a mix of poison ivy and honeysuckle vines that were removed. It will be trashed once it dries.
It took two hours but I wouldn't have been able to do as much as I did without this little beauty:
...yesterday I attacked the ditch in front of the house. It's overgrown with poison ivy, honeysuckle, saplings, and other undesirables.
Last year I laid used carpet over almost half of the slope in the front yard down to the ditch, and it smothered/killed a lot of the weeds, but the ditch needed cleaning, to allow rainwater to travel down the street without impedance/resistance. We get about 48" of rainfall annually, so the ditch is important.
Here's the end of the ditch, next to the culvert pipe that runs under our driveway and to parts unknown (see it on the far left of the picture). I'd already cut back some of the saplings, vines, and weeds at this point.
That's my mailbox post on the right:
After raking away the leaves and using my hedge trimmer to cut back the jungle it looks much better! (top of picture shows what the slope looks like without carpet)
The green stuff on top of the carpet is a mix of poison ivy and honeysuckle vines that were removed. It will be trashed once it dries.
It took two hours but I wouldn't have been able to do as much as I did without this little beauty:
lol. Ditto.
. Still haven’t determined final garden site but we learned to not start planting before Mother’s Day due to possible frost so still have another week to get things figured out
