Greetings and salutations, everyone; yes, once again it is I, Mani the purebred border collie, filling in for the guy I live with, and here today to tell you about the project. You may remember me from other project-related posts such as “The Project”, and “The Finished Project”, among so many, many others.
Here I am in a characteristic pose. The guy I live with stood where three of the garden paths meet.
You may recall that some years ago the guy I live with built two bulb frames. He spent a lot of time on them, and then a couple of years later he removed and disassembled them, because he decided they were unattractive.
This is typical of him.
So yesterday he started on another project, to make a bulb frame in the corner of the yard.
He said he wasn’t entirely sure he was going to like the looks of this.
There are so many cinder blocks lying around the garden that he decided to try this. The cinder blocks were support for troughs, but most of the troughs are gone now.
He carried all these blocks, one by one, from a place two hundred feet away. I’m glad he didn’t fall.
The bulbs will be grown in pond baskets plunged into the soil, so the bulbs can be easily found for sharing, and there will be a cover for the winter, just in case.
As I’ve said before, bulbs (the bulbs themselves) are only hardy to about 15 degrees F (-9.4C), and plunging the pots into soil will ensure insulation, but you never know what’s going to happen.
One thing he doesn’t have to do is order soil to go into the frame.
It isn’t like the rest of the garden is a model of elegance, anyway. There are fences along the north and south borders, and there are the crocus cages, to prevent rabbits from eating the leaves at night.
But I don’t know about this wall of cinder blocks. I guess we’ll see.
There aren’t many straight lines in our garden so this will take some getting used to.
And that’s all I have for today.
Until next time, then.
the miserable gardener 