Sometimes it looks as if each time you remedy one trouble inside the garden, you create a latest one in its location. Our asparagus bed is a living proof.
Problem #1: Asparagus prefers a sandy soil, and most of the dust in our backyard is heavy clay.
Solution: Plant the asparagus on the south aspect of our residence, the best spot that has a truthful amount of sand.
Problem #2: The asparagus planted in this region has a bent to flop over whilst it receives to its tall, ferny stage, obstructing the route from the front backyard to back.
Solution: drive a stake into the floor at the near prevent of the asparagus bed, and run numerous lengths of twine during from that stake to the fence on the opposite thing to keep up the ferns.
Problem #3: The quit of that stake is rather sharp, posing the danger of harm to a person who slips and falls onto it.
Solution: Stick an antique tennis ball at the surrender of the stake to blunt it.
Problem #four: Wasps have built a nest within the antique tennis ball.
Solution: Um....
We located this most recent trouble while Brian pulled the tennis ball off to try to tighten the wire and all at once there had been a gaggle of wasps humming confusedly spherical. When he picked up the tennis ball to place it lower back, he unexpectedly dropped it, considering that the wasps' nest grow to be genuinely inner it. (The extraordinary issue is that the wasps, with their home displaced from its standard spot, don't appear to recognize where to transport. Several of them got here to relaxation on the cease of the stake wherein the tennis ball turned into once, as if they could not quite preserve near that the nest wasn't there anymore.)
Brian's idea is that we need to certainly leave the tennis ball in which it lies for now, then come again tomorrow and word whether or no longer the wasps have decided to head someplace else. If so, we will just stick the tennis ball again at the stake and overlook about it. I'm no longer fine about this, but I should admit I have no better thoughts. I do not want to kill the wasps with nasty chemicals (particularly when you don't forget that they prey on one of a kind insects which can be a good deal larger pests), however I also do no longer need to head sticking my hand into what they don't forget their territory. We may also moreover turn out to be just having to move away the tennis ball mendacity there till winter kills off the wasps, at which factor we are able to appropriately update it.
Of direction, now not all surprises that the lawn throws at you are unpleasant ones. Shortly after we found the wasps' nest, Brian positioned a few Irish moss growing within the cracks of our the the front stroll in which he became weeding. I'd offered a couple packets of seeds for those items a three hundred and sixty five days or so in the beyond, thinking that if I planted it the cracks of the driveway and sidewalk, it would subsequently crowd out the weeds and maintain us the hassle of pulling them. The instructions on the packet said to
One thing you can definitely say for gardening as a hobby: it never becomes routine. One way or another, a garden will always be full of surprises.
