I had meant to post entries more frequently to this blog but "life is what happens when you're busy making other plans" (!) 

We met with Marcus, our landscape architect, last night.  He looked over the cover crop and the baby plants that we have growing in the back yard.   Some of the baby plants did not fare so well in the hot dry weather, and we talked about moving them to a shadier part of the back yard so they would have a chance to recover.  I didn't have a chance to move them yet, but it was cloudy, cool, and rainy all day today, which had to be helpful.

In our discussion with Marcus about the cover crop, I found out that I was mistaken when I wrote the plan was to overturn the cover crop that is growing right now and plant another this summer.   Marcus reminded me that we had spoken of having two cover crops last year when we thought we would be getting an earlier start excavating the rain garden.  But, due to several delays, the biggest one being a NICOR nightmare (the story of which I will relay in a separate entry), we got a much later start than we had planned and decided to go with one cover crop before doing the permanent planting in September of this year. 

In other news, on the advice of the Village of Lombard, we are going to create a yard sign, large enough to read by folks driving by in their cars, to let people know that the cover crop is a temporary situation, to be replaced by a Rain Garden.  So, we are trying to figure out how to make this sign.   I've been looking on the internet for graphic images of rain gardens and came across this interesting piece on WordPress. 

How to Build a Rain Garden

If you have any ideas to share on making the sign, please post your suggestions as comments.   And, if you have other feedback, I welcome that too!