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 felt.
As we put down rock, we realized the slope of the space was too much, we needed a brick boarder. Luckily, I have started a brick edging project up front, so I stole some brick from that and put it in here. Then we added a second row, using landscape adhesive, to keep all the pebbles in.
Ta-Da!
The view from our patio:
It looks so much better I could cry. Seriously. We had the bulk of this done in one day, but continued to move in rock over two weeks. We were able to take the pea gravel around the shed. I think it cleaned up the yard A LOT and the shed feels like less of an eye sore. I have a few clean up projects left (putting in a few bricks here and there, re-doing some pavers in front of our patio, and filling in that first shed hole). So we are slowly making progress in the back. I hope come the end of summer, we'll feel pretty good with everything we accomplished and start enjoying this space even more.
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.
As we put down rock, we realized the slope of the space was too much, we needed a brick boarder. Luckily, I have started a brick edging project up front, so I stole some brick from that and put it in here. Then we added a second row, using landscape adhesive, to keep all the pebbles in.
Ta-Da!
The view from our patio:
It looks so much better I could cry. Seriously. We had the bulk of this done in one day, but continued to move in rock over two weeks. We were able to take the pea gravel around the shed. I think it cleaned up the yard A LOT and the shed feels like less of an eye sore. I have a few clean up projects left (putting in a few bricks here and there, re-doing some pavers in front of our patio, and filling in that first shed hole). So we are slowly making progress in the back. I hope come the end of summer, we'll feel pretty good with everything we accomplished and start enjoying this space even more.
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