My dad drove up to visit last week for Father's Day and to help me with some landscaping. I certainly didn't think the yard work was going to be as grueling as it was!
We started in the front yard by ripping out the orange daylilies that had over grown in the front flower bed. There wasn't enough shade in the front for the flowers to bloom, so there wasn't any reason to keep them in their. After adding a few bags of soil and some mulch we planted some pink and white impatiens. Joel and I got some random planters at HomeGoods and I also planted some more impatiens to go on the front steps.
I also decided to paint over the brick on the front steps. They were old, ugly, and damaged. The paint did a nice job of covering up the white patch work and cracks.
My aunt was nice enough to dig up some of the plants that were getting over-crowding her garden and give them to me. I put some of them on the side of the house along with pink & red gerber daisies I bought. The rest went in the back next to the garage. It was a real pain to dig out all the weeds and till up the dirt by the garage. For some reason there were bricks down in the dirt and they all had to come up before I could plant. There's now a pretty blue hydrangea bush next to the garage.
Dad and I also dug out a circle around the tree in the back yard. There we planted hosta and more impatiens.
I'm pleased that the yard is starting to look a lot more pretty than the wasteland it was when we purchased the house last year. Now, I want to start looking into grass plugs to start growing something other than weeds in the lawn.
I read that vinegar works well to kill weeds (and because it's natural and won't hurt the dog) I decided to give it a try. It did work well but now there are big, ugly, dead-grass spots around the dead weeds. It's pretty unsightly, so I don't think I'll be going any more with the vinegar.
We started in the front yard by ripping out the orange daylilies that had over grown in the front flower bed. There wasn't enough shade in the front for the flowers to bloom, so there wasn't any reason to keep them in their. After adding a few bags of soil and some mulch we planted some pink and white impatiens. Joel and I got some random planters at HomeGoods and I also planted some more impatiens to go on the front steps.
I also decided to paint over the brick on the front steps. They were old, ugly, and damaged. The paint did a nice job of covering up the white patch work and cracks.
My aunt was nice enough to dig up some of the plants that were getting over-crowding her garden and give them to me. I put some of them on the side of the house along with pink & red gerber daisies I bought. The rest went in the back next to the garage. It was a real pain to dig out all the weeds and till up the dirt by the garage. For some reason there were bricks down in the dirt and they all had to come up before I could plant. There's now a pretty blue hydrangea bush next to the garage.
Dad and I also dug out a circle around the tree in the back yard. There we planted hosta and more impatiens.
I'm pleased that the yard is starting to look a lot more pretty than the wasteland it was when we purchased the house last year. Now, I want to start looking into grass plugs to start growing something other than weeds in the lawn.
I read that vinegar works well to kill weeds (and because it's natural and won't hurt the dog) I decided to give it a try. It did work well but now there are big, ugly, dead-grass spots around the dead weeds. It's pretty unsightly, so I don't think I'll be going any more with the vinegar.