As my last blog was the "Summer Garden Tour 2008," I thought I would present a few photos of what my backyard looked like as we worked on it.
The first thing we did was to have a fellow build us a new garage and had the part of the driveway in front of the garage poured. The next step was tearing down the old garage that was placed pretty much in the middle of our property. We contacted many recycling organizations and placed ads looking for people who wanted a two car garage. By the time we were ready to tear it down, we had found someone who would take our wood if we disassembled the garage. We found out the following week that we should have waited a little longer... a man asked if he could have our garage as it was so he could split it and move it on to his property. Although the way we did it was more work, at least the wood got reused. Below is a picture of part of our group tearing down the garage and then a picture of the yard without the garage.
We then put in the sprinklers, rock wall, brick patio, brick edging of the lawn and the lawn itself.
Once most of the yard was in place, we were able to decide on the type and size of the fence we wanted to separate the patio from the driveway.
We still need to landscape a few more areas, but do not feel that it is all that urgent! Someday it will all be done!
We did a lot of work to create the backyard we wanted, but it sure was a lot of fun!
Happy Gardening,
Part-time Gardener
