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welcome to my back i'm not sure what you call this thing it's a bunch of stones

laid out sort of a scenario i guess and uh as you can see i'm gonna put the camera

here i'm not sure how good this will turn out but you can see my stones have lots

of moss and i did think about getting the old weed killer out and killing all the

moss

but it kind of looks neat, this whole area.

And if you look,

let's see,

you see up here,

this is supposed to be a gardening,

which is going to be my first experiment with trying to develop a green thumb.

When I got the place, well, last spring was my first real spring here.

I moved in last spring.

So roughly a year ago, there were some of these things, which I'm not sure what they are.

I think they might be John quills or some sort of bulb type plant because, uh,

I actually hit them with a weed whacker somewhere over the summer.

Here's another guy here, and they came back.

So that's usually some sort of bulb of some sort.

Jonquils are pretty common.

That's something that people plant all the time.

But as you can see,

of course,

it's been raining so much,

the moss is growing all over the place.

That's one thing I have a lot of is moss.

I've got this kind of moss.

I forget what it's called.

It's not deer moss.

It's something else.

Well, anyway, maybe I'll walk around here.

I'll show you that.

You can see this whole garden area here.

And what my plan is, is I'm going to dig all this up.

See, what the prior owners did is they put plastic down here.

You see that?

Then they put soil over it to try and grow some things.

But I guess the point of the plastic was to keep the weeds out maybe.

I don't know.

But what I'm going to do is instead of trying to weed all this, I'm going to dig it all up.

Go about six inches down.

I've got new top soil.

Well, it's not really garden soil is what it's called.

This was some sort of wooden thing.

I'm not sure what that is.

And I'm going to pull all this out.

but I'm going to try and leave the moss on the rocks.

I'm not sure if that's a good thing.

I don't know if moss is good for gardening, but I kind of like it.

I don't know why.

It just has a, I don't know.

It's probably ugly and my tastes are terrible, but, you know, I just think it looks cool.

And the truth is, if I had decided to do this, I'm not sure why you can see this.

Oh, and this thing here, I chopped that down to zero and it all grew back in the last month.

I wish I knew what it was.

It had some flowers on it.

So if somebody knows what this is, there's the leaves.

And no, it's not marijuana.

But, you know, it has like a pinkish purple.

Oh, there you go.

Got some pinkish purple flowers on it.

These little things here.

And in about somewhere in the summer, it'll die.

It'll just be sticks.

And that's the end of it.

So I guess it's a perennial or an annual.

I'm not sure.

But my plan is, is that with this area,

is I'm going to take all this up, and I'm going to try and find some flowers.

I'm going to go,

probably this weekend,

I'm going to go down to,

there's a local nursery,

and get some advice on things that flower all year long,

or at least a good chunk of the summer,

maybe stuff that,

you know,

spring and then stuff that's fall,

because I have a lot of hummingbirds.

And so I'd like to see hummingbirds around here.

Now I could, as you can see up here in this tree, is somebody had made a long time ago,

This is actually a birdhouse, but there's no birds in it.

So my thought is,

is that at some point,

we're ready to do,

you know,

I don't know if you see this or not,

but anyway,

is to try and get,

maybe put some things here to attract birds.

But you can see, here is that weird mossy stuff.

And in the fall, it begins to turn white and it becomes almost like, well, there's none here.

Well, there's different moss.

So you got, I've got this kind of moss.

I've got this stuff growing here.

As you can see, you know, it's surface area type stuff.

And then these guys over here, this is much tougher stuff.

Look at that.

Let's see if I put the camera over here.

That stuff's much tougher.

And what happens is in the fall,

It turns white and it becomes like coral.

It's really kind of neat.

Of course, you step on it bare feet, there would be a problem.

Now, the only problem is, is I do get a ton of gnats.

The gnat is the state bird of West Virginia.

So I'm not going to be sitting out here a lot because otherwise I'd have to come up

with something to do something about the gnats.

In fact, right now they're just buzzing all around me.

It's making me crazy.

Well, anyway, last fall, I got rid of all the moss along this thing, and it all grew back.

Now, a lot of it has to do with the heavy rains we've had.

We probably,

oh,

I don't know,

we probably had 10 inches of rain in the last week,

10 days,

something like that.

So, we've had a lot of rain.

But, you know, I tell you, if I had...

designed this whole thing, I wouldn't have done it like this.

But at the same time, I like it, and I like the amount of work that was put into it.

I do know it's two owners prior who built this thing,

put all this stuff together,

and it's not,

there's no cement there.

It's all just wedged together.

So, you know, there was a lot of love putting this together.

So, anyway, I'll try and put some flowers here.

I thought about maybe putting azaleas.

Because deer won't eat azaleas.

Roses, that wouldn't.

And you have to do something.

You have to know what you're doing to plant roses.

And I'm not going to ever learn that.

So, at least I don't think so.

So, anyway.

So, I'm thinking flowers there.

Now, along this area here, I thought about putting some, like a boxwood or something.

Because deer don't like boxwoods.

But that means tearing all this stuff out.

So, I think what I'm going to do is the first effort is just try and do this.

Clean this up.

I'm not 100% sure what I'm going to do with the moss.

Maybe I will clean it up.

Just, I don't know.

One of those things.

People tell me whether you, you know, there you go.

What do the YouTubers always say?

Put down in the comments your opinion.

Because I don't know.

I mean, honestly, I kind of like it.

I don't like these guys growing up.

I'll get rid of those.

But the moss actually looks kind of cool.

And it does die off.

Once it gets dry,

you know,

my,

my guess is,

and this is kind of this part of the country,

you tend to have a very rainy spring and it's been a late spring.

It's been a cool spring.

And then you get a very dry mid July all the way,

mid June rather through July into August,

it's dry.

And then, then you get, you know, fall rains and winter.

So we do get a dry period.

So I'm guessing the moss will just all die off at that point because last year,

That's what happened with a lot of this stuff.

By the end of the summer, this stuff was getting pretty dry.

But what's crazy about this,

this moss over here,

I think I just pointed this out,

these guys,

at night,

when you turn the floodlights on it,

it turns blue.

I'm not sure why that is.

But I've also got some mushrooms here.

I don't know what they are.

I guess they're mushrooms.

Well, I just, you know, this guy here, I don't know what that is.

Some sort of mushroom.

But anyway, this is my green thumb plan, I think.

So digging all this up, and the crazy part is that dirt is not cheap.

You know the old expression, dirt cheap?

Well, that doesn't mean anything.

I bought enough to do this.

I measured it out, and I think I have enough to do this.

I think it was like $96 in soil.

See, like this thing here, this strikes me as probably a weed, I'm guessing.

And all this is just different kinds of weeds.

And as you can tell, most of my grass, well, I don't have grass.

I have clover.

I have moss.

I have, uh, whatever the hell this stuff is, weeds.

So, but anyway, so it's about probably about 90 bucks worth of

worth of stuff there.

And I don't know if it'll be enough.

I'll probably have to buy some more.

So if I decide to do this guy over here, you think it's like eight bucks a bag.

So, you know, there's another 90 bucks.

So dirt cheap is a misnomer.

Dirt is expensive now.

Anyway, that's the plan.

So I'm going to try and keep it, I'm trying to keep it country looking.

I don't want it to look suburban and I don't want it to look like I put a lot of effort into it.

I kind of want it to look natural.

It's kind of like this log pile here.

which I just started stacking these up as I found them for no reason other than I

just think it looks nice.

Now,

granted,

I don't have the best taste in the world,

but I'm not working for better homes and gardens either.

I'm just a guy who lives out in a boney.

But that moss, it really is amazing to me.

And again, I should do this.

I should figure out how to film this at night because you put the LED on it.

Yeah, LED light I have.

And it's like electric blue.

It's really wild.

Well, anyway, I think that's, let's see, how much time we got here.

I think that's probably enough of my better homes and gardening.

Look at my, there's some broken wood there that who knows where that came from.

There's my grill.

Oh, and here's my fire pit.

which I only use at this point to burn boxes.

I have lots of boxes.

I finally got, I'm done.

I have one little thing left to do.

I'm going to burn some cardboard here in a little bit because it's pouring rain.

I don't have to worry about the ashes getting around, but that's my fire pit.

All right.

That's enough for this.

See you next time.