When You're Working on the Garden Plot,

Adding grass sections with some extra dirt got me going again.  There are 18" by 36" sections of grass laying down nicely, but I decided to add some extra dirt to smooth out the flatness of the section for the future.  Also, the grass was not of good quality and I wanted to help it as much as possible to develop sprouts. 

I did this because the big section of the yard I already grassed over ended up being lumpy/bumpy because I was not able to help smooth the dirt before laying the grass sections down.  That bothers me when I walk on it, but what can you say when you have helpers that want to simply get the work done as quick as possible in this heat!

I'm happy getting this section down since I learned a long time ago, always start in the back because if you begin the work in the front, the back never gets done... or not for a very long time! Hahaha  So true!

this is what happens when..... you start spending time on other projects in the yard.  After getting the raised garden area going and started weeding the back yard, I spent some time walking around the yard.

What I witnessed were weeds overgrowing a perfectly cleaned and coconut chipped area in front of the house in no time at all.  Weeding is becoming a big, big job, and I'd rather still be created new places to plant than clean out areas that I've already cleaned out but here I go again...

Then I stated on the over grown bushes in the front of the house....

Then went after the purple flowers and trimmed off the tops so I could possibly re-root them.  I just put them in water for now, but the neighbor keeps telling me to stick them right into the dirt.  Hmmm.... I guess I could try a few in the water and a few in the dirt.  The truth will tell in time.