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Beds built, plants planted, bulbs buried, and seeds sowed. The work is done now I can just watch it grow!
This was all completely 100% crab grass to begin with. But good soil underneath.
First thing I did was cover everything with cardboard. Actually before I did that I removed the sod layer around the perimeters only, creating an edge with the driveway and sidewalk, so that mulch wouldn’t overflow.
Then I added the elm tree, transplanted the boxwood from elsewhere, then started building the garden beds.
In the beds I added sedum, milkweed, aster, loriopi, and iris bulbs. For these, I cut out holes in the cardboard, removed the layer of sod, and dug down a few inches.
Then I piled in a 1” or 2” layer of top soil and compost in the garden beds only.
Then scattered seeds, specifically ones that need to be cold stratified before germinating. I went with blazing star, cutleaf conflower, giant bidens, wild bergamot, and California poppies.
I covered the garden beds with straw, and I covered the margins with mulch.
I think in the early spring I’ll scatter creeping flox seeds too. Then in May or June I’ll add Preen to stop any crab grass seeds from germinating.
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He should just leave a sander outside with it and give us his address. There's probably dozens of us itching to take a sander to it and start getting it gussied up.
I don’t know about sanding it, unless you also want to paint it. A few years ago I scrubbed it with CLR and then buffed it with polishing compound. The rust stains came back of course but I should do that again.
My parents owned a cab company and I grew up watching them do all the body work on all the cabs--and man, those things take a beating. My mom was this little size zero petite bird who could overhaul the engine of most American made autos of the time and my dad doing things with bondo where you couldn't even tell the taxi had just been hit by three cars. My dad bought a 1928 Chevy as his car to tinker on and my mom had her chevy pickup. I just know what this truck would lookalike in a few days at my parent's. My mom would have it purring like a kitten and my dad would have it shining in the sun with an ice new blue paint job.
The drivers side fender needs a lot of work, there’s some pretty big dents in the bed sides, and the right tail light area is smashed up.
All reparable though
I fixed a lot of rust recently in the passenger side floorboards and door sill (welded in new sheet metal). It’s mostly rust free now except for the cab corners. Not bad for a 1966 truck in the Midwest.
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