.......In the cover of dark?
Why, it's 3 inch squares of Irish moss....
Grandma G's solution to "no mow green".....
I had bought 9 of them a few days earlier and wanted to get them in before the rain set in that evening......figured that as they grow the dirt areas will cover over.....
Saturday morning revealed a tidy square of little green patches....
Keys and Jake came over to finish shoveling the dirt from the neighbor's driveway....
Half of it to the front where eventually I (hopefully) will fill in the gap. The other half in the back for future planting....
Zach digging holes for trees to landscape along the garage wall
Gram G making progress....designing the stepping stones pattern
Like all great innovators, I lay awake one night thinking of ways to hurry on the "seeding" process...I know one can buy "sod" for lawns. I wondered if one could buy moss sod....or seeds. Next day I ordered 500 Irish moss seeds for $4.20 and $2 shipping. More on that later....
A couple days later after observing how quickly the clumps of moss were growing little fibers I figured they would have greater opportunity for expansion if the middle fibers were not crowded by all the competing outer fibers....oh yah.....SO....cutting the little critters in 6 or 8 pieces and distributing them would probably result in faster ground coverage.....correct? (See pictures above....those brown things are NOT worms, rather "whatever" from the neighbor's trees)
Now for the rest of the story......
A few days later I received a 4 by 6 inch shipping envelope in the mail. Hmmmm.....wonder what this is all about....a sample of an advertising ink pen? Upon opening it there were 2 green Styrofoam packing peanuts and a folded piece of paper. Hmmmm.....now what? Inside the paper was an itty bitty 2 by 3 inch plastic packet with a label reading "500 Irish Moss seeds".
Instructions read.....
sprinkle and mix into sand or peat moss with some lime, keep moist and seeds will germinate in 4 weeks...
SO.....guess I'll think about this a day or two.....
Back to the store I went for another 15 three inch squares of Irish Moss....
But wait.....What is this? It's not brownies....Nope.....
Why, its a pan of dirt sprinkled and mixed with......
500 Irish Moss seeds....Yep.....
Grandma G is going to sow them directly onto the ground and let nature do whatever nature does with 500 Irish Moss seeds mixed with dirt.....no lime, please....check back in 4 weeks.....
Oh, I have to remember there are 4 three inch squares of Irish Moss in the car....
Need to take them out, cut them into 16 tiny squares of Irish Moss
AND....plant...
Grandma G's green space yard from the outside....
Grandma G's view looking out her living room window....
Someday soon all that brown will be "no mow" green.....
Oh, yah, Baby.....
You all come to visit, you hear?
This has been a good "what did she plant" day in life of Grandma G.
"A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path.....some fell on rock....other seed fell among thorns...Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown."
(Luke 8: 5-8)
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