This the season to get your yard work done! So excited this year that I am not PREGNANT and I can actually do some good work with Adam. So last year we did everything from retaining wall, underground tramp to sprinklers and sod. This year we are focusing on more of the fun stuff that make your yard look really good the PLANTS!!! Plants and tree’s I feel can transform your yard it make it look so much better. So we have a couple ares of the yard I am going to show you that we have done. I am starting with our side yard though. I know must of us have a side yard that needs some attention! So here is some helpfully tips what we did to make it look better.
To start this year we decided we were going to get ride of all the bark around the whole house. I hated the bark where we live it blows in the grass and i feel like it looks so good the first day we put it down but then after that the wind blows and the sun fades it and it started to look like crap. So we though enough we are going to do something that is going to last longer and look good all year round. So we went with rock. We got sky light gray. We have a truck so we were about to go to a rock yard in Lehi and get it by the Tone. It took us over 3 tones to do the whole front and the entire back. It cost us just over $340. This rock that we choose was not the cheapest it was $100 a ton. You can get others for about $40 a Ton. One Tone is basically 1 truck load full. Yes it is more costly than bark, but we never have to buy bark again and it looks good all the time. We just liked the sky gray color.
(GRASS TIP!!! So if you grass in just not looking so hot then you NEED IFA Fertilizer its amazing. We have tried all different kids and nothing make our law thicker and so green so fast then the IFA fertilizer from grass. Check out our grass before we put anything down this we just 3 weeks between these pictures.)
So this was the side of our yard BEFORE. Over grown and grass intruding upon the flower bed weeds and the horrible bark everywhere.
After
Second we had to buy something to keep the rock in on our side yard. If you read back to our Front Porch Planter Box Up-Date. You will see that we have a slop to our home. So last year we fixed the front yard with the step down planter boxes but we did not get to the side yard. So this year we decided we just needed something that would separate the rocks from the grass. To stop the rocks from coming out. I got Dimes EasyFlex No Dig Landscape Edging, 40′. It is supper easy to use and does such a good job at separating your grass from your garden ares. I got mine at Wal-Mart for $22.97 they do sell them at Home Depot $26.99 they will price match Wal-Mart as well. It also comes in 20′ length for $15.99. It comes with 8 stakes to put in the ground. I ended up buying 8 more stakes per 40′ I used.
Before
After
I love you all hope have an amazing day!
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