City property

Utah County Residents and Businesses: don’t forget the first annual Growing Together YARD SALE in May. Just in time for Mother’s day or Memorial Day, or Cinco de Mayo.Baskets, buckets, tincans and planters full of Orem special blend of garden flowers

I have a strip of 20 feet wide and the depth of my lot that faces 800 North.

The previous owner made deals about it and

the state was going to continue on east of 1000 East

with it's beautiful tall walls and trees,

but it's been a while and it hasn't.

But the city owns it, and it makes my yard look really bad.

The previous owner dumped all the rock and debri from digging the new basement

and the basement to the north.

He was satisfied that a rock berm would help amileorate the noise.

It didn't.

So today I had a streak of blood through my brain

and as I dug up the viscious tiny weed,

and patches of Johnson grass from my flower gardens

I threw the grass out there.

The weed doesn't grow in grass.

I pulled the grass from along the old broken down fence

that the city owns

and rubbed the sead heads together planting the tall wild grass on the rocks.

I felt just like RUTH.

There is dirt inbetween the rocks, but not a lot.

Then I took the cedar berries that we gathered last year to make beeds

and scattered them along where the fence was going to be.

They grow twenty feet tall over a decade or two.

I scattered the sunflower seeds

I gathered last summer from the sunflowers that grew there.

And some of my collected neighborhood seeds that grow well in this climate.

I'm going to have to spray the tiny weed with Round up or something

because it grows overnight, as I said in a previous blog.

But I don't want to spray all of the rocks because then the seeds won't grow.

Someday the city may take their yard seriously.

I love how they've done the sidewalks and trees

and lawn west of here,

but for now,

I'm going to plant all the drought resistant things I can find,

and make the city a little more beautiful (not too hard to do in place of with a pile of rocks).