Brownstoner Garden: Planting Gowanus Booty
Here’s how the garden looked on Sunday afternoon after doing the first wave of planting. Previously: Contractor’s About Done [Brownstoner]
Here’s how the garden looked on Sunday afternoon after doing the first wave of planting.
Previously: Contractor’s About Done [Brownstoner]
Be careful with planting to many hostas. Slug city!
Push mower is the way to go. Have to pop out to garage at some point and see what model it is. And it has a grass catcher. Makes cleanup raking go faster.
Looks beautiful, Mr. & Mrs. B. Enjoy!
Nope. Gonna fire up the Tiki torches.
brownstoner:
did you do lighting in the backyard?
Face,
Might take you up on that manual mower…
Lowe’s sells a cute, tiny little push mower. Takes me 3-5 minutes to mow our 8′ x 13′ lawn. Love the sound of the whirring blades, the smell of the 3-in-1 I clean it with, and it’s bright orange too — so what’s not to love?
For garden furniture, we have a great table-and-chair set we bought from Crate and Barrel 3 years ago (but the design is very 1960s). Black metal: iron or alumiminum — I’m not sure which. The finish is baked on and is showing no wear or tear at all after 2 winters and total neglect from us. I gotta bet it’s lower maintenance than any wood furniture.
Congrats on your beautiful new garden. You have a great canvas — filling it in will be fun. Even ‘though you’ve said previously that you want a low maintenance garden, I kinda suspect you’re catching the gardening bug. I hope so — it’s fabulous therapy for stressed out urbanites.
Country Casual may be cheaper – but in my experience the quality leaves a lot to be desired vs. S&H. Ordered a round dining table and six chairs from them last summer and had to return three of the chairs due to major structural defects, cracking etc. They were very good about handling replacements but overall product certainly seems inferior.
BTW: You should water your grass in the morning or evening. In the direct sun, water drops act like little magnifying glasses and harm the grass blades…