We have been working on the yards this past month. A good (bad bad bad horrible) lesson we learned was that crabgrass gets spread easily by using the lawnmower. So the vicious weed from our backyard that we had been mowing got transferred to our front lawn. I spent exactly three weeks pulling out all the patches that sprung up in our front yard and then an additional two weeks digging out the entire back lawn. I still have a small patch in the backyard to dig out before we can level it and plant seed. Oh my.
The garden that Sam built is beautiful. We have been working hard at finding the right formula to get our garden going - soil pH, watering, pests eradication etc. I am just excited to see things actually growing! Yay! It is exciting. I am hopeful that we will get plenty of fresh veggies in a few more weeks to months.
Today, in the amazing heat wave that just hit us, Sam is hard at work putting in a new sprinkler system for our backyard. The area that the current sprinkler system is set up is really awkward and ugly. We have pvc pipe just running across some of the cement. So Sam is going to reroute it under an area that used to be filled with dirt and rocks.
All the rocks he relocated!
All the dirt he removed.
The start of the new piping.
