I use scissors and a knife to stick in there and then bags of mulch to keep it in place, but 40 mph winds will blow fabric around well. As soon as you take the scissors/knife out or pick a bag of mulch up you have to be standing on that area. It’s a wind tunnel here. I hate it.
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Awww I see. Well maybe try using bricks or something heavyer on the end your not holding. Do you have garden spikes to hold down the fabric as its rolled out?
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I had the metal stakes for the fabric, but they kept getting pulled out by the wind. Haha. I don’t have much mulch left to do tomorrow, so won’t be too bad.
Grabbed a Barbados cherry tree/shrub tonight. Going to grab some more stuff tomorrow evening after I put everything in the ground here and use up the bags of mulch I have left.
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Picked up a Brightwell blueberry bush, Tommy Atkins mango tree, Kent mango tree, and Burbank plum tree today. Still need to grab the Carrie mango tree, Pineapple pear tree, Golden Dorset apple tree, Anna apple tree, and Bruce plum tree. Then, I’ll keep my eyes peeled for a TropicSweet apple tree or go get one from someone at UF. I want to find space for both a pink and a red flowering crabapple as well. I’ll put everything in the ground tomorrow, because I don’t feel like doing it today. Haha.
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@PatHealy this is killer awesome 
Your gonna have an actual forest to walk around in smiling collecting fruits.!
If you can find a Banilejo mango, BUY IT!
Make sure you use a 7‐7‐7 or 4-3-4 fertilizer or one of similar grade made for acid‐loving plants Blueberry .
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This sounds like an average activity I’d do to procrastinate something (aka great fun)
I love how inspiring DIY gardening can be.
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I managed to round up a few havent had ne in hand. Will update once i do.
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They are neat ares is bushing out hard
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My Buddy started growing some blueberries this year, he has come over and raked up a couple of bags of pine needles to throw on the soil.
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Well… I asked for just 1 or 2 yards of Arborists mulch and…
He said this looks Aboot right 
Thats EIGHT yards of woodchips/Leaves/Branches everything from a few large trees 
for FREE!!!
SO… Besides leveling out the garden walking areas, begging neighbors to take some and filling “dead areas” behind the Blueberrys box under the hedge and the Blueberry box itself, the front flower beds, the backyard flower beds, tomorrow the side yard (which should take about 40% of this pile!
If nobody takes it off my hands, Ill leave it to compost it in the driveway to use next spring.
Ohh I also topped off this Biochar experiment with rain water, added a few earthworms we found then covered with mulch blanket…
PS. One of my Banana trees, I literally “killed it” took it from the pot, ripped the leaves to crap, stomped the rootmass then dropped 10" of soil filler (dirt from someones garden) then another 15" of good gardening soil/compost & Peat moss mix ontop. Then planted Strawberry everywhere. (I figured it would breakdown & become plant food) NOPE!
Its growing up through the center of the Strawberry patch. 
Ppss… made Tomato sauce with about 30 small tomatoes from the garden & spices we grew this year. 
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Bud, I love all your posts, your excitement, and enthusiasm… but if you don’t buy a wheelbarrow (at least) soon I’m going to have to block you. The thought of moving the piles you share in buckets breaks my heart, and my back. If you were closer I’d lend you a machine for a weekend
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Wood chips ya should be able to just throw some on a tarp and drag it in. Owning a wheelbarrow is a risky thing. Suddenly almost everything on your property is now mobile. The risk of moving heavy stuff around all the time is far too risky. Take my word. I’m old, you don’t wear out a wheelbarrow it wears out you.
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Lmao Your amazing.
Ps. This 8 yard pile again has been moveing with just a few 5 gal buckets.
Ill post photos of that tomorrow 
Thanks for following along, means the world to me.
Ohh and this pile of woodchips is surprisingly light compared to the last pile that got rained on for a few days before we moved it.
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We have a tarp under this woodchip pile, thinking its easy to slide around, IF it was just 1 or 2 yards like we expected.
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I love this reply, I’m a sucker for a good slogan. But F that @CADMAN , get a wheelbarrow already. You think everything’s mobile anyway. Apply this saying to buckets. You don’t wear out a bucket. The bucket wears you out.
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They have those yard carts that dump easily as well. I have a 7 cu ft one. I’m like Cadman though, I end up carrying everything. I can move faster carrying two bags of soil/compost/mulch at a time and walking between my plants as opposed to wheeling the cart around. They’re handy though.
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Wheelbarrows cost $$$
Cost of 2 feet & a heartbeat 
FREE !
I forgot to mention at the start of this thread, or maybe I did? Or was it another thread I have? 
Im dirt POOR, Like separating 2ply poo paper to make 2x the paper milage, cause 3ply is “fancy” hahaha.
Im the typical full-time working “lower middle” class working poor Canadian.
Generally, the goal is low ish cost possible for mostly all my projects, sometimes it back fires 
and sometimes it works great!
Example: the front deck we built, I originally purchased wood locally, freshly cut at a fraction of the traditional cost, built the deck then decided that it wasn’t gonna be long lasting or safe. SOooo. We purchased from bigbox store, paid an arm n leg and essentially paid 2x for the same project.
So in stoner math, IF I pay nothing or less for some projects more then others, it all equals out at the end.
Ps. “WE” = me & my wife & sometimes 1 of my kids helping in all these projects AND my wife has a few medical issues that cause her pain. Hence the Cannabis consumption.
I do tell her to take lots of breaks, but does she? Umm sometimes!
I know i know I really should, but after ghis garden is “done” im retireing from hand blaming things. And im stubborn 
haha.
Besides @PatHealy said it best
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Plus, Canadian wheelbarrows have square tires. It’s just not worth it.
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I think i still have a few Wheelbarrow seeds left. If @CADMAN has time for one to grow out. 
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