Day 282: Great ideas

Hello again,
This post is for yesterday because I was unable to post again. Lately I have been having alot of not so good days so I apologize. For this post I am thankful for great ideas. Great ideas don't always come along every day (at least not with me) and when they do it is really wonderful. Yesterday my mom and I were looking at the flower beds which never quite look as good as they could because of several reasons. One is that the dirt is so hard and lumpy that it never really looks very nice and takes away from the pretty plants. The dirt also lacks something that it is not nice black dirt but this greyish black which also takes away from the plants because it doesn't look nice. Other reasons include weeds and this year the poor plants have gotten way too much water and they are struggling. Anyways on to great ideas. We recently started getting horse manure shavings from the neighbor to mix into the garden dirt and we have a whole pile of it. My mom and I came up with the idea to spread it on top of the flower beds which covers up the not so nice dirt and almost looks like mulch. It also somehow makes the plants stand out and the colours of the flowers seem to have so much more colour. Plus from time to time we can mix it in the dirt and add more which will loosen up the dirt nicely. I am not kidding that the dirt is hard. When it is dry you can't even barely scrape it with a hoe. to try to get a shovel in it is very difficult. I am not sure what makes it so hard but we try what we can to loosen it up. The flower beds look pretty now. :) One problem solved!!! Now if I could figure out how to permanently eradicate the weeds..... lol