Wrong Day

Trellis...

So the plan was to finish making the tepee trellis today, which I did, but it didn't quite tepee. I made two straight trellises and the plan was to lean them up against each other like the ones from Home Depot. What I didn't realize was that I probably needed thicker longer bamboo and boxes that were directly across from each other with space in between the two beds. The two beds are slightly off to the side of each other and right up against one another too. So the tepee didn't quite work out. It also looked silly because it wasn't the length of the bed. Anyway, I'll have to think of something new, maybe I'll just use them as is separately. I don't know yet. I do know that they aren't very sturdy and that they just don't look great. I might even take one and put it in place for the peas and use the other as a trellis for the vines that grow randomly in Patch, as a little decor.

Patch Tree...

As you've probably seen in Patch I had a tree that looked pretty dead. It turns out it was and that I needed to rid my little garden of it because the vines were growing up in such a way that they could have invaded my bed. So I got rid of it. That was a grand disappointment. My once cute and symmetrical garden was off. I needed to move the Topsy for two reasons 1) to fill the void and 2) because it was so low the vines were getting close. I tried using my current shepherd hook and moving it around but that didn't help the height so I switched one for another. I took a very tall old shepherds hook from Potagar and put the wind chime that hung on it on mine. It actually looked nicer and I had a taller hook. The rust didn't matter because in the corner by the patio there was a 2 foot tall hook with a candle lantern that I'd moved into Patch and it had rust so it all matched very rustically ... Now all I had to do was get the hook in place and the Turvy on it. That was a big to do. It was so tall I needed a ladder. I tried getting it on the hook by myself but I feared for my life. I was so scared the ladder would topple and that I'd fall head first down the hill that my legs were shaking. On top of the Topsy being so heavy I couldn't really lift it without crushing everything. So I called Mike out. We tried and tried. Finally we got it on but had pulled the hook out some so it was no longer sturdy. I tried sledge hammering it back in but it still isn't sturdy. I was so frustrated I left it. I am just hoping I don't wake up to 15 smashed and mashed strawberry plants because it didn't hold. I also didn't quite deal with the symmetry issue. I got my mom a hibiscus tree (she keeps it here) that I'd forgotten about that I plan to place in the spot of the old tree. I won't plant it there I'll just place it there for looks. Hopefully that'll restore my Patch to its former beauty. It doesn't have the serene feeling anymore. It just feels a bit vacant. I am hoping once I add some tea lights to the lantern and the hibiscus it'll be even better, but as of tonight today was all wrong.

Note: I couldn't take pictures because it was so late when I got done, I was too frustrated, and it was too dark to really display what I'd done. I'll take some tomorrow and add them to the post along with the trellises and images of plant progress all around.