While digging out the lowest for our new patio, we dug up pretty a number of rocks along side the clay. Some of these without a doubt got tossed onto the pile with all the concrete chunks, but I made a element of saving all the smooth, roundish ones that have been as a minimum a few inches prolonged. I'd determined the ones beneficial within the beyond for landscaping tasks; the bed in which our raspberries are now, which we on the begin dug out as a rhubarb patch numerous years within the past, yielded a large series of stones that I finally have become a border for our day lilies inside the the front outdoor. So I became pretty positive I should provide you with an incredible use for these round rocks, despite the fact that I did now not have a selected one in mind.
Within each week, a appropriate use counseled itself. Our cherry bushes, ignored in the course of the week we spent running on the patio, had commenced to end up overgrown with weeds, some of which have been nearly as tall due to the fact the timber themselves. Moreover, the boundary among the
To do this, though, I had to get the mulched area cleared of weeds first, or it wouldn't be clear where the weeds were meant to leave off and the mulch to begin. So I devoted a rather sweaty hour last weekend to yanking up as many weeds as I could manage to root out from under the mulch. Then I grabbed one of our big cocoa butter buckets and started filling it up with the rocks we'd mined from the patio area, making a couple of trips to transport them all to the other side of the yard and pile them up beside the cherry patch.
Monday marked the beginning of the big East Coast heat wave, so I spread the work on the new border out over a couple of days, working only for half an hour at a time in the cooler morning hours. The biggest rocks were the hardest to move, so I left them near the middle and spread the rest out in no particular order along the lawn/mulch boundary. The final result isn't perfectly straight or perfectly even, but it looks much tidier than it did, and we still have some rocks left over in case we need to expand it at any point.
By the way, those two big rocks in the middle actually aren't the largest we pulled out of the patio area. The very biggest one was literally larger than my head—far too large to be incorporated into the border, and really too large for me even to move over to the other side of the yard. So I ended up just rolling it a little way and leaving it propped up against the pole that supports the clothesline. It shouldn't be too much in the way there, and maybe it can come in handy as a sort of a little table to rest the laundry basket on, or even a place to sit.
