Backyard Oasis
Throughout this semester I have spent many hours working on our backyard landscaping project. Moving into this house this year I knew that the backyard was something I wanted to make a priority as we love to spend time outside and host family and friends. As this project went on I learnt many new skills…
It’s Seeding Time
We have come to a very exciting time in our landscaping project, it is time to seed our grass. We have leveled out the dirt in our yard multiple times even buying more dirt to help with the leveling process. We have let it settle twice and have had an obsessive amount of rain, everything…
It’s Leaking
As we continue our backyard project this week we decided that this week’s project will be fixing up our sprinkler system and getting it up and running so we can use it when we plant our grass, as it will need to be frequently watered and we don’t really want to be using the…
Is It High or Low?
“It’s high here, it looks low here” were words I said and heard many times this weekend as we worked in the backyard. This week’s project was grading the backyard, getting it all going in the direction it needed to and getting it ready for grass. I had no idea what I was doing when…
We Got Berries!
I got a call this week from my grandma letting me know that she had raspberry seedlings and did I want them? Of course I wanted them but I knew nothing about growing raspberries and my backyard was not ready for it. We quickly got a patch of dirt ready this week to plant these…
Backyard Design
This week for our backyard landscaping project I realized before I could do anything I needed to come up with a plan and a design of what I wanted my backyard to look like. After walking the backyard many times and chatting with my fiancé where we both suggested many different things we had ideas…
Landscaping Adventure
As a new homeowner my life has been full of adventures as I learn new things and take on new projects. Now that it is getting warmer outside we have decided to tackle landscaping our backyard. This is something that I have never done before and do not have much experience with. The only experience I…