| July 9 |
| The project for this day was to prevent weeds from coming up in our perennial bed around the flag pole. This area had already been weeded twice this spring and yet with a week's worth of steady rain... well, the weeds were winning. |
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| We are using the poor man's weed barrier; a double layer of newspaper. The hardest part of the job is getting it to stay down until covered with wood chips. I have used this barrier at home and have been weed free for five years. The mulch we receive for free and frequently it has weed seeds in it so that if we receive a lot of rainfall at any one time there can be weeds that germinate in the mulch. These are much easier to remove than when they are anchored in the soil. |
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| The wheelbarrow was purchased with funds raised by the Botany class. In the background you can see the White Cone Flowers are blooming and the yellow flowers are Coreopsis. There is also Sedum (Dragon's Blood) and Russian Sage at this time. In our three hours of work we mulched half of the circle. As the summer days heated up, our work force grew smaller. Therefore we spent most of the summer on this one area. Here is how it looked for the opening of school the last week of August. |
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| Russian Sage (purple), Rose of Sharon (red/pink), Echinacea, Coreospis |
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