Before and After #59

Sunday, 10 August 2025

Another St Helens before and after. This one started with my mistake in ordering probably 5 x the amount of mulch we needed to re-mulch our garden area. I didn't get a good photo, but this resulted in a mulch mountain sitting on the front lawn, slowly killing off the grass underneath it.  

So we decided it was time to extend the garden beds. We had a few rocks and grasses sitting out on the lawn slightly weirdly anyway - so putting a bed around it would finally make them look better, and use up some of the mulch.  Unfortunately this meant we needed some more garden edging, which I had to go to Launceston to get, but since I was running out of some art supplies I was happy to spend half of Friday driving up to the big-smoke and getting supplies - including a little cart which would help us relocate our five zillion tonnes of mulch. This was worth the trip in itself (we had already looked locally but the options were too big and expensive at the local mitre 10). 

So now we have a new bed, some new plants and rocks that don't look quite as much like they fell from the sky:

We still had 2/3 of the extra mulch so that has now been relocated to the side of the house - I think we probably had enough to cover the entire front lawn!  I won't make that mistake again.