Blank Canvas

You’ve got your work cut out! I look forward to seeing your progress!!

-- Living on the square...Metro Detroit

Oleanders bloom on new wood, so by pruning them heavy in the early spring you will promote more blooms.

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

What wonderful potential!!! Can’t wait to see your plans progress this spring/summer!!!

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

and the blank space will really make your flowers shine!!
How exciting. We are really going to have fun here this year as we watch everyone’s progress.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Holy Moley, hope you win a lottery soon…......kidding?

Chickens. I have a few and recently built them a new coop.

Concrete floors are a must, they crap a lot, not as much as a duck but still a lot so weekly coop cleaning is imparative. theres also chicken lice…......nasty and hard to get rid of. Thus the concrete to use a pressure washer and insecticide to thouroughly clean the coop. Lots of straw and not to confuse straw with hay. A heavy bedding of straw makes clean up a snap, that siad…...fresh eggs, nothing like it and organic too.

Your place and mine are similar. I have a HUGE lawn, no idea why anyone would need such a huige lawn because where do you start and where do you stop maintaining the lawn. Just the cost of riiding weeds, fertilizer etc, on a big lawn is too much for this boy. So I am in the process of making a fence around a much smaller area near the house and around the pool where I will maintain the flower beds and keep the grass green. Anything on the other side of the fence doesnt get watered (except a few trees)........just cut the grass and walk away. Thus why I want goats/sheep….....let them keep it trimmed.

I love a challenge and am guessing you do too

Cheers

-- Central northish Ontario

I feel like I should be outside each week taking pictures, these were all taken about two weeks ago, nothing looks like this anymore, the chicken house has been cleared out and prepped for paint, and frame work is almost done. All the dead weeds and leaves have been removed or turned into the soil. I try to maximize all the weekend day light I have. We should have a guy coming out this weekend to remove brush, he may turn and run when he sees what all we have :D. There is much to do on the CHicken house, our dead line is March 3rd. And this morning I swear I saw a patch of green in the yard, I will encourage it as best I can with this crazy texas weather.

Looks like you have a good place to start! Better to have a blank canvas in my opinion- you decide where to put your plants instead of a previously established yard! Good luck and look forward to viewing your progress pictures!

-- Jen, Zone 8 SC, http://www.woodlandchic.com

i’d prefer your kind of blank canvas to mine. you have lots of things to work off of. Specifically all the buildings. Making multiple borders to draw the builtings to the land is a great first step. they cna be any size and shpe, and gives you a good jumping off point!
Sib ;)

I have sorta inhereted a few canvases that some one else started….........worked out perfect

good gardening is the ability to roll with punches…....

that siad, sooner or later theres nothing like a cleam piece of slate!............and then slowly draw the fingernails down making peoples skin crawl….......definite an attention getter!!!!!!!!!

Rest this mans soul but a well respected and deceased member of the community to which I am a part of said to me. “Anything can look good if you throw enough money at it”........

I will be forever curious as to what he really meant by that comment?

Back to the original “Blank canvass”

keep the canvass small…...........and enjoy life!

a statement

-- Central northish Ontario

haha… calm down Desertjed.. calm down :)
ok.. forget that—keep those ideas coming.

That’s kinda what I’ve tried to do in my gardens: tuck little surprises into the yard here and there. I really love your “blah leading into wow” idea.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)