Looking better from the street
Believe it or not, most neighborhoods are not used to seeing gardens in front yards...especially gardens planted in straw bales. Since we want to be good neighbors (and I will be honest - we are so done with coming in from watering with a couple dozen goats heads stuck in our shoes) we decided we should spruce things up a bit. Our front bales are planted with a variety of squash and beans. The ground between those bales, however, are filled with gravel and goats heads - vile weeds that bear seeds with thorns that are happiest when they dig deep into your flesh. After we have stepped between the bales to water, we sound like we are walking with golf cleats on, and we have to stop and pull those nasty seeds out before coming inside, lest we find them later with our bare feet. Something needed to be done! The goats heads in this area have not started growing much yet, but with the water running off the bales, they soon will be. Enough is enough! We star