Posts tagged ‘Garden’
- A surprising discovery for the backyard raised beds on September 28th, 2012
We’ve been planning on raised beds all along in the backyard running along almost the entire length of the northern fence. This is partially because it’s easier to tend a garden when you don’t have to get on your knees to do so, and because we want fresh new soil for planting things we’re going [...]
When we bought this house, the front yard hadn’t exactly been cared for in a long time. A chain-link fence was installed some years back, as well as on the neighbors’ houses on either side of ours. I can’t pretend I really know what life was like on our street during the rough and tumble previous [...]
- Everything is growing around here on April 12th, 2012
Though you probably can’t detect the growing in the belly here, because these photos were only taken about 3 weeks apart. I took the first photo on the 18th, two days before we left for Atlanta. I took the second photo tonight. Our garden did some serious growing while we were gone, most of which was the [...]
- Adding some nice curb appeal on May 17th, 2011
Phase one on the front of the house is basically finished. Here’s the front yard 16 days ago and then today. What a difference! As you can see, the garden is well on its way and the lattice and joist have been repainted in our new grey trim we’ll be using elsewhere on the front [...]
- Wrapping up the garden — for the time being on May 3rd, 2011
After just about a week of work, we’ve got the front garden planted. We started by tearing the fence out and pulling out the ivy for about 3 or 4 hours Sunday afternoon. I worked Monday and Tuesday nights after work for a few hours digging up and tearing the roots out (don’t miss this [...]
