Ok. It has been delayed long enough! I have finally started rebuilding my cactus garden today. What did I do when I first built this garden?
As recommended, I decided on a mixture of the native sandy soil (Not from our property - our property has clay soil, but there is sandy soil locally.) and decomposed granite. I did not like the idea of leaving the old soil, so I am taking all of it out and replacing it with my new soil which is totally different from the old soil. I have raised up the border. I also decided to expand it just a little in the rebuild
Now is the best time to do it since the rest is all under construction. And you can never have too much space right?
Here is a picture from April:
Here is a picture from today. As you can see I all ready outlined the area to be expanded.
Side view:
The poor lawn is getting quite a bit of use during the construction with all of these heavy containers and rocks!
A portion of the old soil is removed now:
Side view:
After an afternoon of work, here is where it stands. I have removed about 2/3 of what I want to, and have replaced it with my new soil mixture. I also planted a couple of the larger plants that needed to go in the ground. You will notice that I added the Ocotillo on the side, and moved the Yucca rostrata that was there before back a bit.
Side view:
Brand new Ocotillo.
Top view. I haven't decided what I am doing with that awkward "twice edged by stone" area by the Texas Sage and the Yucca rostrata. I will have to figure out something to make it flow a bit better and look nicer than two pieces of stone with some soil in between. It works for now though.
I just have to finish up the rest of the garden, then I can finally plant all of the plants that have been waiting to go in the garden for the past few months
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I guess I will need to plant some more next year.
