First, quick announcement. Annual plant sale will be on Saturday May 7th from 9-11 at the maintenance building. We won't have every plant available for sale that is in the greenhouse now but we will have a nice cross section of plants available. Your plants can be charged in the usual manner as you do your other purchases at the club.
Its taken us a couple of weeks to get the bubble bed near ready for planting for Becky but we are close. I like to have slightly raised beds for the following reasons; It provides for better drainage and helps to separate the bed from the surrounding turf area. Our process included the following
- Dig up the old plants and spray out some of the creeping plants
- Till the existing bed
- Dig up the sprinkler heads so they can be raised
- Haul in new topsoil to raise the level of the bed
- Place a layer of black gold compost over the top
- Till it all up again, heads raised, plants removed
- All that's left is to smooth it out and install the plants
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| The old bed planted at what is now ground level |
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| Plants ripped out, dug out |
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| Soil hauled in and you can see hole in foreground from sprinkler head area. Probably hauled in about 10 yards of soil, around one dump truck load. Individual piles at a time which had to be hand spread. |
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| How that make it in there. LadyBug in the early days at Glen Echo when she would get fired up, grab a stick, fling it in the air and run around like a crazy girl |
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| Black gold on top of the bed and raised grad of the bed |
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| Finish tilling in the compost and mixing soil together. Need to clean up the edges, smooth out the soil so that surface water will drain from the building out onto the turf area. |
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