Project Garden Noob - Year 6

You'd be surprised what you can get done in a day with enough motivation.  In this case, that motivation is my mom, surprising us with a delivery of 3 tons of pea gravel.  She came over with some landscape felt, stakes, and the determination to fix our weed pile in the back yard under the raised beds. I'll be honest, the weed farm that was growing under these beds was ugly and soul crushing. Sadly, I didn't exactly want to grab a picture of the weed-sanity, but take the picture below and add every weed known to man under it, especially thistle, and you'll have a good "before" image. We started by taking out as many weeds as we could stand and laying down TWO layers of landscape felt.  One was kinda cheap, left over from other projects, and the one my mom brought was really tough, like can't-rip-apart-by-hand tough.  We started furiously covering the ground and as we got moving along, my mom started moving rock in while I continued to lay landscape fe...

I never thought I would utter the words, "you care more about the yard than me" to my husband this summer. But I have.  Several times in fact. Cary has been working like a beast to get the garden shed done.  It's been on it's foundation for a couple weeks now and I've found a couple things to do to help make it feel like less of an eye sore. This is the view directly to the left of our patio area. And from the front of the shed. Inside the shed My mom had the bright idea of putting some sort of outside art on it, which I was digging, then I had the idea of adding some functional space to the shed foundation.  Et Voilà I splurged on some fancy-ish trellises to hold up some crawlers.  I have cucumbers in one and I was going to put snap peas in the other, but realized I didn't buy snap peas this year.  So I tossed the sunflower seeds in there.  We'll see what happens! It's coming together folks.  Obviously, we have quite a b...