A couple of weeks ago I hurt my knees pretty badly building my butterfly garden. I'm not able to finish it, so it currently sits covered in thick newspaper and mulch. I've been struggling to find places for my new plants that I had ordered online weeks ago that were intended for the butterfly garden.
I've got 5 or 6 plants coming in any day now, so I built a new little 3'x3' garden to hold them. I cleared the weeds, then I turned the soil and mixed in 2 bags (3 cubic ft) of mushroom compost.
The bed will be surrounded by a walkway. This photo was taken from the porch, so the flowers here will give me a nice view.
It was a lot easier on my knees to use my new long-handle shovel instead of getting down on my hands and knees and using my hands and trowel as I usually do. I see all these little roots so I’m dying to kneel down and sift through and remove them all, but I just can’t do it--my knees are still too sore, though they are improving.
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