Garden Plans

7+ ton additional pile

Spring break weekend was busy! The funny part of this week was we did not plant trees. The whole point of this spring's prep ended up incomplete.

So what happened? From my last post until now a lot of shoveling was involved! All Tuesday and Wednesday I shoveled dirt and pushed the wheelbarrow because I was too impatient to wait for us to purchase a cart for behind the lawn mower. The 7 ton dirt pile managed to fill in the holes and extend "the beast" partially. We simply ordered another load of dirt. Communication somehow became muddled and we received twice as much as before. I wanted to cry.

halfway finished

Here sat a pile twice as big. We now only had four days to complete our list. The clincher was the muscles sore from the previous two days. Another pile of mulch was added to the list of piles needed shoveling, but at least we had our cart to tote it all in!

The good part of all of it is, although we still have not planted our evergreen trees, our yard is mulched for another season and we got the grass seeded right before the rains came. Now we wait. The grass is supposed to come up in 10-21 days and then we can seed whatever washed away.

halfway sloped

completely sloped and seeded

We did decide on a local place to order our evergreens from and are waiting to see how it will turn out. They are supposed to deliver and set the trees in the ground for you. That would be amazing.