I was so motivated by my initial landscape project, that I decided to extend the garden along the entire length of the house. I found a how-to online article at Sunset magazine about edible garden paths. Here’s a “before” picture:
If you look at the back of this photo, you can see the black cinder way in the back. I had to clear all of the cinder, and because I didn’t have anywhere to put it, I made a trough to hold it all. I’m sure that the cinder will be useful someday, but for now, it’s being held in a 7X7 foot bin.
After I cleared the rock and roots, I made a path with rocks from Mom and Julie’s yard. Props to Jonathan for lugging all of the rocks out of mom’s yard and into my car.
Next, I installed a new sprinkler system and trellis with PVC pipe and the remnants of our old fence. I made the trellis by attaching the fence material onto PVC pipe with regular screws and held the entire contraption upright with rebar. The other trellis is made with just twine running through eyelets in the PVC pipes.
I back filled in my new planting area with a good quality soil mix.
And now I plant! I’m keeping the avocado in a container, because I don’t want the roots to invade our house, but I’m putting in grass on the path, and bananas, lilikoi, plumeria, stephanotis, lavender, beans, and other herbs and flowers to fill out the bed. It doesn’t look like much now, but in a few months, I’m sure that it will fill in. Exciting.
