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So, I bought my house around a year and a half ago. After moving around a lot and not having my own place while in the Marine Corps, I was glad I finally had a backyard I could do something with. I always wanted to grow my own veggies, fruit, and have lots of beautiful plants to enjoy.
When I purchased the home, the backyard was basically a field of neglected grass, weeds, and some poorly executed decorative projects. There is a lot of stuff I would like to do, but it will of course take time and money. That being said, I was able to get the yard where it is today by re-purposing things the previous owner had in the backyard and by searching for discounted items.
Unfortunately, the garden is bare right now because I didn't plant many winter crops because of some back issues, but picture several types of tomato plants in the raised beds along with cucumber, zucchini, yellow squash, pole beans, and a few others and that's what it looked like last spring and summer. It's been great because I've been able to share what I've harvested with many of my neighbors!
When I purchased the home, the backyard was basically a field of neglected grass, weeds, and some poorly executed decorative projects. There is a lot of stuff I would like to do, but it will of course take time and money. That being said, I was able to get the yard where it is today by re-purposing things the previous owner had in the backyard and by searching for discounted items.
Unfortunately, the garden is bare right now because I didn't plant many winter crops because of some back issues, but picture several types of tomato plants in the raised beds along with cucumber, zucchini, yellow squash, pole beans, and a few others and that's what it looked like last spring and summer. It's been great because I've been able to share what I've harvested with many of my neighbors!
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This is what it looked like when I bought the house. The "grass" seems to look okay in this pic because it had just rained, but believe me, it was 50% weeds and wasn't usually that green. A $75 rental of a sod cutter took care of that.
It's a little hard to see, but the previous owner put in a planting bed and a little pond toward the back by bordering those areas with retaining wall stone. The pond looked terrible and wasn't functioning, so everything got taken out.
It's a little hard to see, but the previous owner put in a planting bed and a little pond toward the back by bordering those areas with retaining wall stone. The pond looked terrible and wasn't functioning, so everything got taken out.
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