Garden Demolition Continues Apace

I am to the point in my garden demolition where I'm really feeling that it's time to go get a rototiller and go to town so I can get my veggies in. It's exciting but for the fact that I also have to rent a truck to accomplish this.

This is the area where the garden will be:


but more recently:







I found this 2' (ish) by 3' (ish) hunk of patio when I was clearing out that daylily patch-- bet you didn't see that coming-- I certainly didn't.



It's got a heads up penny pressed into the cement. I tried to read the date on it but it was so covered in dirt (and oxidized) and it was dark when I got it all clear, but I think it dates our patio at 1960. I'll look again in the light tomorrow.

Anastasia thinks it's a great spot to put the grill once the area above and beyond it is cleared out more, but that's much lower on my priority list.

Getting into that area of the yard felt very garden-archeologic-- found an arc of bricks that paralleled the shape of that huge daylily patch (but smaller by about 2 feet) where I assume they were once planted ornamentally - boy have they taken over! I also found some parsley growing at the edge of the raised cinder-block bed (under the strawberry, creeper, grapevine, and knotwood that have taken over) as well as something that looks like a cottage rose, although it's not in bloom.

So my next big to-dos are:
-Till cleared garden bed.
-Line the edges with logs from the log pile and add some fill to make it a bit higher.
-Get my veggies in and then some!
-Take away the rest of the log pile (see appendix A)
-Clean up the other side of the fence and weed the cement.
-Find a table and some chairs so we can enjoy it!

Other house/garden tasks include:
-Pull everything out of the raised cinder block bed (where the evil bamboo stand is)
-Try to kill the evil bamboo.
-Weed the bed beside the driveway so that the peonies can actually do their thing next year.
-Pull everything that's coming up through cement.
-Put hostas in the bare spot in the front bed (move them from other parts of the yard)
-Try to train the ivy to grow up the house (I think it deserves it)
-Dig up all the mini-quinces that have dropped and spread around.
-Sprinkle some grass seed around.
-Convince the landlady to remove the 50 gallons of gas (ongoing project)
-Also convince her to mend the hole in the front step.

Does that sound ambitious?

I also think I want to get a wisteria and let it eat the porch. This house, to me, deserves to be swallowed up in vegetation in a prettier way than it has been.

Appendix A: