The next step was to add an edge. In this case, salvaged 4x4 fence posts from our dwindling stash, cut to size and fastened with ground spikes. They're not beautiful, but they do their job ... keeping the mulch IN and most of the creeping weeds OUT.
The final step, in this part of the process, was to add a generous layer of mulch.
The combination of landscape fabric and mulch will block the light to the grass underneath, and most of it should die within the next few weeks. By the time summer is waning and temperatures begin to cool, the area will be ready to plant. What am I planting here, you ask?
Some of them are:
"Talcott Noisette" from cuttings at Hollywood Cemetery.
"Tutta's Noisette" from Rose Petals Nursery.
"Ryland Rose" from cuttings at Hollywood Cemetery.
"Lathrop Noisette" from cuttings at Hollywood Cemetery
"Woodbine Rose" from cuttings at a cemetery in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
"Isaacs Rose" from cuttings at Hollywood Cemetery
For now, these babies will continue to live safely in their little pots ... where I can give them a lot of attention, till the weather is favorable for them to live in the ground on their own.