{"id":1536,"date":"2009-08-03T16:54:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T23:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/after_and_befor\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T23:54:12","slug":"after_and_befor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/after_and_befor\/","title":{"rendered":"After and Before"},"content":{"rendered":"

I adore my herb garden. It’s twenty years old, and shows signs of wear and tear, but I feel incredibly fortunate to be able to work with plants that smell so wonderful, and to be able to incorporate them into a raised bed with native flowers.
\nThe only difficulty with this garden is that we never completed the walkways. Originally, we intended to lay brick in the pathways, but we’ve just never gotten around to completing the chore. Each year, at least three times during the growing season, I’ve had to weed the walkways. The herbs, as well as weeds seem to like the ground up limestone (chat) as a growing medium. When the chat is dry, it’s impossible to weed. I can’t figure out how the plants can grow in it. When it’s rained, the chat is a breeze to weed.
\nI spent about two hours, two days in a row, and this was the result:
\n\"HG<\/span>
\nThe “after” picture looks SO nice that you can see why I want to keep those walkways clean.
\nBelow is the “Before” picture for the other half of the job. My garden helper left some plants in the walkway two weeks ago, so it looks worse than usual, but you can see what the rains have done for the weeds and volunteers.
\n\"HG<\/span>
\nIf we don’t have rain in the next two days, I’ll be watering the path so that I can rip out all the volunteers and clean things up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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