Next Thing

While doing some grilling I saw the planter box. Realization came to me that it was time to do something with it.I also saw that the Lariope ring under the fig tree on the right needed re-doing.

I was looking around and I saw the empty spot in the corner of the yard where the bricks I used out front had been stored.

All week before I was thinking about building a planter over there, so it dawned on me that I already have what I need in hand. It will be a temporary anchor in that corner. I also decided to pull up the Lariope grass. I got eight 1 gallon plastic pots with the intention of getting eight plants from the group. Then I would enlarge the ring, pull apart the clumps and re-plant it. There are three additional clumps in the front yard that can be removed and used here.
My tasks for that morning:

• Remove soil from planter bed, screening it into the big pan to separate the bulbs and debis.
• Clear out the new location for the box and prepare a minimal footer on which to set the planter.
• Move and set planter box level.
• Dig up Lariope and remove to screen.
• Dig new bed for lariope replant.
• make eight small pots of lariope from the stock.
• Re-plant Lariope around fig tree.
• Bury bulbs in new location.
• Recover former location of planter box with fresh, screened dirt and grass seed.

I wanted to be done by 9:30.