Stone border added along road

January 11, 2026

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Following some advice on the fediverse after voicing frustration about people driving their vehicles through landscaping where I'd recently mulched and planted a bunch of native seeds, I added a border of large stones every six feet or so just inside the curb. The biggest probably weighs 100 lbs or more, but most were like 30 or 40, some less. I scavenged them from elsewhere on the property - some were along the edge of the patio, some I'd used to make a border around the herb garden, two I'd put in front of apple trees I planted on the eastern hillside, and the last was one I'd previously moved from the very back of the yard to the edge between the grass and the various shrubs behind the bird feeder on the terrace. It amounted to 11 of them in all. Around them I planted hemp dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum) seeds, which I'd collected from the back of the terrace in November.