Flowers in other people's yards.

[petmoosie]

I sprinkled some seeds in our front yard (between the sidewalk and the street, which is technically owned by the county).

It's a mixture (commercially put together) of annuals and perennials. I lost the package just a few minutes ago. The area between the sidewalk and the street looks salty and has small pebbles from all the snow removal. I doubt that this year will be good for that area. mrmoosie found some graphs that seem to show that this area gets tremendous amounts of snow every 7 years. It looks like an El Niño effect. So from that I would predict that the area between the sidewalk and the street gets dosed with pebbles and salt and sand and other debris on a seven-year cycle. Most years, there is very little need for plows here. So, if it grows this year, it should grow in the other years of the cycle.

Tomorrow I hope to get the last GS cookies out to their recipients.

Comments

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Keep us posted -- I've often been curious about those mixes and whether they seem to work or not.

[petmoosie.livejournal.com]

I will, but remember they are fighting the salt/pebbles/sand junk dumped on top of my soil by the snow plow. So if they don't work, it might be the site. I wonder where I put/dumped the seed packet. There were probably around 20 different species names there.

[petmoosie.livejournal.com]

The mix does not seem to have grown at all!!! Maybe I planted too early or maybe/very likely the soil is not in good enough shape there. That area gets lots and lots of debris from the street, especially if snow-plowing is involved.