More Like A Siege

Previously in the Battle of the Septic Mound, we saw the initial planting of the Carex pensylvatica, and then the subsequent addition of the Fragaria virginiana, neither of which have New Jersey in the name, which is of course the state where I planted them.

This is what it looks like today.

Each spring and fall the Pinelands Preservation Alliance has a "Deer Food Sale", although for marketing reasons they call it a "Native Plant Sale". And in the Year of the Pandemic, the sales have both been online only. Which is nice because they don't sell out so fast.

And to continue the assault on the septic mound, and thwart the deer, I ordered twenty more Pennsylvania Sedge plugs. And today I planted all twenty-nine that they shipped to me (math is hard*). 

Here you can see the plugs, nicely mulched with pine needles. Expanding the perimeter of the battle zone.

Slowly but surely expanding and replacing the non-natives. And advancing the War on Lawn.

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* No, it really isn't.