Last weekend, we got cinder blocks and built raised beds for vegetables. This week, we've been filling them with compost. This weekend, we'll be planting. Eventually the blocks will be stained so that the beds don't look quite so "industrial."
I love having the labyrinth as the center point of the yard. There are flowers and fruit trees around it; now, food is joining the collection. I have a couple of cloned lilac bushes, still very small, that are part of a phenology study. Eventually, one will scent the labyrinth.
Just knowing it is there and waiting for me drops my blood pressure when stresses at work are getting to me.
If you have any curiosity about our adventures in gardening, I made another Blogspot for it. We are calling it Labyrinth Farm.
I created a Santa Rosa Labyrinth © (designed by Lea Goode-Harris) in my back yard in 2006 with the help of my son and two girlfriends (one toted rocks, the other talked me through toting rocks). My teenager did the lion's share of rock moving. My husband did the greater part of the mowing and weed eating. In Spring of 2010, my patient husband had the whole thing mulched and we replaced the rocks. It is available for walking by anyone in the area who needs the use of the space.
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