Anywhoo, it was great while it lasted and we took great advantage. Nick has been wanting to make some improvements to the east side of our house for quite some time now but the monies, supplies and opportunity had yet to make themselves available. Well, wouldn't you know they did. Just as the weather was turning and while Nick's family was still in town, the plan came together. It all started when Nick got a call from a landscaper friend who had just laid a ton of bark down at a job but the home owner had decided they didn't like it and it had to go. Well, as they say, one mans misfortune is another man's landscaping! Nick and his dad spent 2 days loading, hauling and unloading bark from our truck into the side yard. Then they started on our new fence. We are terrible at remembering to do before shots so here is a "barely started" shot of the fence groundwork being laid:
While the men worked on the fence, G and I tackled the bark and landscaping. Here was our berm before with it's wild thyme jungle on the bottom tier:
And here are some after shots. You can now make out individual thyme plants:
With all the bark we decided to do a large bed along the side of the house that wraps around to the front. Here is the shot from the front of the house. Notice our main helpers - G and the chicken. Between Grandma D and the chickens Gunnar stayed quite "busy" whole his mama schlepped bucket loads of bark.
In the main section we are putting our yearly garden so here we are digging it out and planting the tomatoes and peppers. Our neighbor was kind enough to bring over his walk behind tiller so we have a great bed of soil, compost, sand and hay. Fingers crossed for some grape tomatoes!
We still have to finalize the bark layout, finish the fence and put in the patio but it is off to a great start! And now for the parting shot:
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