Something Big Has Started!

  Yesterday, I wrote about the big plans that my daughter has about growing olives.  She wishes to have an olive orchard on her acreage so we bought two small trees to get her started.  Hopefully, these trees will do well and by the time her property is cultivated, we will have rooted many more trees from cuttings.  Now, I find something big happening right here on the Bayou!

  Today, I wandered back behind the shed to find Son digging a huge hole.  Well now, that is different?  He has not done that since he was a wee tot and the three kids decided to dig to China.  I admit that I was a bit bemused by their antics but it did keep them busy for days on end until the one day that they had dug so deep that they could not get out of the hole!  The hole that Michael was digging this morning was not so deep as it was wide....and long.  When questioned, he informed me that this was a bog.  Alrighty then!  A bog on the Bayou! Who would have ever thought that might be possible!  (A bit of sarcasm there, folks!  The Bayou is one big bog!)  Anyway, he furthered informed me that this was to be my long wished-for bog garden!  He was making the garden in a terraced style so the water would run from one level to the next before being pumped to the top again.  His idea is that the flowing water  and a few bull minnows will keep the mosquitoes at a minimum.  The minnows would also help by furnishing a natural fertilizer.  It sounds like his plan is a good one so I will just let him do his own thing here!

  I have had a desire to grow watercress and cultivate my water hyssop to a greater extent.  These, and perhaps a few Arrowhead Plants, would round out the more usable plants.  A few waterlilies might be tossed in just for appearance. I am excited to say that he is creating something far bigger and much better designed that I had ever dreamed!  (Yay for sons!)  Now if I can just keep the Cottonmouth Moccasins and alligators from claiming this bog as their home, I will be one happy camper!  A BOG GARDEN!!  Just imagine the possibilities!