Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Late June Pic, 0 by linuxogre

linuxogre wrote:
When we bought this house two years ago we had decided to go for an older construction that had large trees. The downside is we have had a fair amount of renovation to do. My honey do list is still astronomically long. The landscaping was poor to unimaginative and the previous owners were not especially interested in gardening. Both my wife and I are retired and I love having the time to putter around in the dirt. The soil has been an unbelievable problem. I have never seen so many rocks. A new or renovated bed generally produces buckets of rocks. The soil itself isn't bad but tends to be heavy so I have been digging in scads of organic material.

The shady area in the first pictures faces sort of south west but it is largely under a big crab apple and partially behind a large purple plum. It gets some sun but not a lot. The photo is of the plum tree when it was in bloom this spring. The crab apple would be to the left and is not in the picture.

Roger

This message was edited Jun 26, 2008 4:56 PM

This message was edited Jun 26, 2008 4:57 PM