Yard Work

Yesterday we finally had a Saturday free to do some major planting and working in the yard.  While Chad was busy trimming and mowing the yard, I took a trip to my favorite nursery, Cook's Greenhouse, to buy my veggies and some more shrubs.  As much as my front yard needs work, I thought the backyard was much more deserving.  I was out working all day, digging stuff up, and moving things around, weeding and planting.  I have to admit though, all the hard work has paid off, and I am liking how it looks so far.

I wasn't happy with what I had planted against the house here originally, and bought these shrubs instead.  I love the color of the brown ones, especially, and hoping that in time they will grow nice and big.

It was really bare here against the fence last year, so I bought a new shrub, and moved 2 others over from the end of the yard to fill it in a bit.  Too bad it will take a couple years for them to really look nice, but already it is much better than before.

Most excitedly, I thought it was finally safe enough to plant my veggies.  This year I decided to plant zucchini, onions, peas, pumpkins, carrots, celery, cucumbers and 2 kinds of tomatoes, on top of my strawberries and raspberry bushes that come back every year.  Hopefully we will have a good crop.  I am going to be leaving much of the watering to my boys this year as part of their chores, so I guess we will see how that goes.

At this end of the yard we have been plagued with nasty weeds that just wont' die, but my friend Carolyn sweetly came by to help me dig them all up and start again.  I also didn't like what I had planted here before and took some things out.  Much better.  Now to work on the front and clean out the garage...