The Mysteries of an Overgrown Garden

As I continue to remove weeds and thorny brambles from my somewhat neglected garden, I keep finding exciting new things that once had so much potential!  The garden has been here quite a while, with many previous care-takers, so it’s difficult to know exactly when different projects were completed, or who worked on them.

 Here are the two discoveries I made the other day while attacking blackberries:

The first is an area that is marked off with edging into 3 raised concentric circles.  It is slightly reminiscent of an herb spiral (though not a spiral, and the edging is way uglier than any permaculture material I’ve seen).  I found some strawberry plant labels lurking in the top circle, though, which makes me think that an herb spiral-esque design was, indeed the intent of this area.  The plastic is way ugly, and I’d love to just yank it out, but I hate to waste all the hard work and materials that went into the project.  Maybe if I plant it with really bushy things that hide the plastic, I won’t mind it. This kind of defeats my previous plans to put a compost pile in this corner, though.

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