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Well .... after surviving a year or so of sundry medical 'adventures' I've finally gotten back to dealing with the yard ....
FINALLY had the juniper bushes trimmed back -- last year's snow had snapped many main branches and the live bushes contained a lot of dead stuff that needed to be removed ... and the dang things had shot up to over 10 feet high (apparently overhanging tree branches had blocked their access to sunlight, so they tried to grow through the tree branches to reach the sunlight). Also had said low hanging tree branches trimmed off. And 6 dead or trash trees removed. LOT more sunlight now. And some angry squirrels. Looking for new branches to hang the bird feeders.
So had to order 2 pallets of pine straw bales to spread over the newly exposed ground around the roots of the remaining junipers to prevent soil erosion this winter. Will wait till spring to ponder whether to plant ground cover or a line of low shrubs to hold the soil as the junipers regrow.
Fortunately pine straw is light weight and fairly easy to deal with. And smells great.
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