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shadesofmauve) wrote2009-04-06 07:13 pm
shadesofmauve) wrote2009-04-06 07:13 pm
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Sod off!
If I ever own property, and I really hope that someday I will, I think I'll experiment with making sod walls. It's not that I really want sod walls for anything, but I really hate grass, and I really hate trying to get all the extra topsoil off of sod after it's been taken up, and finding something to do with it.
Half of the sod Erik removed yesterday is in the blackberry thicket, where they shall combine their evil powers and create stealth blackberries. Half of it is in the city yard waste container, making it weight four times it's norm.
When Andrew and I were kids, mom and Dad built a fort with sod taken from the garden spot and suckers from the apple trees. Walls were sod to two feet up, and then apple-sucker palisade held together with twine.
I'm thinking I could make a wall of sod as a landscape feature, seed it with tough wildflower meadow type plants, and then as it decomposed I'd get a berm.
The only information I found in my brief, rootbeer* fuelled google search was about sod bunkers for golf courses and sod composting. Sod composting is interesting, but takes a lot of space and a lot of time. Luckily it's all moot, since I rent.
*I rode my bike to work for only the 2nd time this year, and when I got home I dealt with the sod pile in the front yard, and then realised I hadn't eaten any lunch. My lightheadedness tells me this was a bad idea. The rootbeer tells me it is tasty.
Half of the sod Erik removed yesterday is in the blackberry thicket, where they shall combine their evil powers and create stealth blackberries. Half of it is in the city yard waste container, making it weight four times it's norm.
When Andrew and I were kids, mom and Dad built a fort with sod taken from the garden spot and suckers from the apple trees. Walls were sod to two feet up, and then apple-sucker palisade held together with twine.
I'm thinking I could make a wall of sod as a landscape feature, seed it with tough wildflower meadow type plants, and then as it decomposed I'd get a berm.
The only information I found in my brief, rootbeer* fuelled google search was about sod bunkers for golf courses and sod composting. Sod composting is interesting, but takes a lot of space and a lot of time. Luckily it's all moot, since I rent.
*I rode my bike to work for only the 2nd time this year, and when I got home I dealt with the sod pile in the front yard, and then realised I hadn't eaten any lunch. My lightheadedness tells me this was a bad idea. The rootbeer tells me it is tasty.