Rewilding My Lot

Apart from the walkway of Thunder Turf around the perimeter of the back yard, my pathways are made from free city mulch, originally placed on a layer of cardboard. Over time they compact down and so periodically they get an inch or two of fresh mulch on the top.

I had intended the pathway “refreshing” to be a winter job but didn’t quite get to it. Now the weather is getting warmer, I was hustling to get it done before it gets too hot.

I have four large reusable bags that I bought for exactly this purpose, but I failed to account for how heavy they would be if I actually filled them with mulch! So a car load for me is the four bags each about half-full, which is about what I can safely lift into the car.

Three car trips later (spread over three days), the major pathways have been replenished. I also have three minor walkways that give me access to trees and the rain gauge, and they got a bit of a sprinkling of mulch, too.

In some places there were seedlings that were growing in the mulch from plants here that seeded last year, e.g., bluebonnets. In the major pathways they got mulched over and in the minor walkways those plants are still poking through. Unless they’re weeds I won’t remove them, but I also won’t avoid walking on them.