Looks like I'm not the only one in my neighborhood that has started some
Guerrilla Gardening. While walking Digger this morning, I noticed one neighbor a couple blocks away has added these five poplar trees and an irrigation system to the Army Corps of Engineer's project.
The rise on the left of this photo is not a natural hillside, but a new dike built to protect our homes from the newly elevated Prado Dam. Before this year's construction, the gentle slope from the property line on the right continued down about 400 yards to the Temescal Creek. In the last year, they've built this long dike around our neighborhood and installed an above ground irrigation system. They will be hydro-seeding with native plants like buckwheat and white sage, and in the spring the irrigation will be removed. During the construction we saw a dramatic reduction in wildlife, but the coyotes, raccoons, opossums and other critters have started to return.
This morning I dug out the future patio in Nana's Garden. I need to fill it with some three-quarter gravel. Lowe's sells a 1000 pound bag for about $30 which should put about a two-inch base. A couple of those should frustrate the gophers and keep them from undermining the patio. It will get another half ton of builder's sand which should bring it to grade for adding the bricks and granite slabs for the patio.
Looks like I'm not the only one in my neighborhood that has started some Guerrilla Gardening. While walking Digger this morning, I noticed one neighbor a couple blocks away has added these five poplar trees and an irrigation system to the Army Corps of Engineer's project.
The rise on the left of this photo is not a natural hillside, but a new dike built to protect our homes from the newly elevated Prado Dam. Before this year's construction, the gentle slope from the property line on the right continued down about 400 yards to the Temescal Creek. In the last year, they've built this long dike around our neighborhood and installed an above ground irrigation system. They will be hydro-seeding with native plants like buckwheat and white sage, and in the spring the irrigation will be removed. During the construction we saw a dramatic reduction in wildlife, but the coyotes, raccoons, opossums and other critters have started to return.
This morning I dug out the future patio in Nana's Garden. I need to fill it with some three-quarter gravel. Lowe's sells a 1000 pound bag for about $30 which should put about a two-inch base. A couple of those should frustrate the gophers and keep them from undermining the patio. It will get another half ton of builder's sand which should bring it to grade for adding the bricks and granite slabs for the patio.
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