There are benefits to getting outside, digging holes in the yard and planting pretty flowers. Once you get past the “eeuuuwwwww gross, sickness, there’s a worm” part, which for me lasted about 5 minutes – you start noticing the different types of dirt in different areas of the yard and how your plants respond to those differences. In the yard of our 3rd house, every hole I dug I replaced the dirt with a combination of soil conditioner, mushroom compost, and top soil. The removed soil is used as part of a bank or barrier. So it’s simply moving dirt from here to there and creating my own vision on my little patch of earth.
I learned two ways. First was from my mother and her sister, Mariam. The second way was simply by trial and error. I encourage everyone to tap into anyone who knows and loves plants and to buy a plant and dig a hole because the following pics are my babies that are blessing me even this early in the blooming season.
It starts with one plant and one hole. Go play in the dirt!
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