Thought I'd update you folks on the progress of our garden rebuild. DH spent the weekend finishing up the irrigation system layout. The two of us together (he did most of the work) planted most of the plants we saved from our old gardens. Surprisingly most of them survived just fine and many thrived with just being stuck in a cardboard box lined with a garbage sack and filled with potting soil. Go figure. We had fun deciding where to put things. Now they have plenty of room and incredibly good soil ($400 a truckload, and don't call it 'dirt' in front of t he truck driver -- it's 'four-way planting mix for vegetables and ornamentals) so they should grow like crazy. Of course, there are a good number of new plants joining them and some spots will wait for fall because High Country Gardens is out of a lot of what I want. Fall planting for rootlings is probably better anyway than mid- summer, which is also known as 'hotter-than-hell season'. Actually, our nights cool off to a really comfy temperature and a light breeze usually whips up once the sun goes down.
I'll post photos tomorrow, and I'll come back and post a link here. Really it just looks like a bunch of little plants stuck into dirt. :) DH is going to be taking up the brick path he has laid out so he can put down sand or some other stabilizer. We plan on planting thyme between some of the bricks at the top where we will have a seating area and along the paths between the stepping stones. It's going to be pretty and lush, probably by next summer.
Thanks again for all the support and caring and good thoughts and prayers. I have felt the energy coming from you, and the love. It's great.
Hugs and good gardening, Sunny