I cleared out a firewood area and rototilled some Oak leaves into the soil with some cow shit. Four three gallon Lilacs trees and six yards of mulch.
It should be real pretty.
How is your garden growing?
We're tilling this weekend. It's all veggies and we're looking forward to the canning season.
shareI bought a Ryobi battery tiller a couple years ago, it’s pretty good for the veggie beds.
The batteries should be stored indoors, they can die out in the shed and they are ridiculously expensive!
Most Ryobis are fine tools. The hedge trimmer needs a good sharpening right out of the box though.
We looked at some two weeks ago. Their batteries look like they're the same as my leaf blower.
shareI've started some cucumber seeds inside. It's still too early to plant outside here. Mostly just be veggies this year.
shareWe have a frost warning tonight here in the Hudson Valley…WTH?!
shareI did a bit of yard cleanup a couple of days ago. I wanted to get the leaves up that were covering the few plants I have before rain moved in. Yes, rain. It's been raining on and off all day today and we're supposed to get more overnight tonight and tomorrow night. Things are finally greening up after two years of drought. I don't think my front yard is going to come back, though. The past couple of years have been extremely tough on it. By early fall last year, the grass was so dry it had turned from brown to gray. But hey, the weeds survived! 🙄
The back yard did okay, but it's not in the hot sun all day long, either. Heck, I'll probably have to mow the back soon. Once the rain has passed for now, I'll be bringing out the patio furniture - after I clear all the twigs and branches off the patio. We've had quite a few very windy days here, so of course there is lots of tree debris that was blown out of the mature tree back there.
Oh, and of course the bugs are back like crazy.
If you have a couple of industrious High School boys on your block they could take out, till and seed that front patch. Glad you’re getting some rain now.
I’ll fire up the mower soon, give the lawn a tidy sweep and snip.
And YES!
The little gnats are back in force.
Oh. My. Stars! I despise the gnats! They just won't go away, no matter how many times you try to wave them away. The worse is when they get behind my sunglasses. Argh!
No high school boys on my block, but I can usually find someone on NextDoor when I need some help, either directly, or recommendations for someone.
The guys that built the Kingshed pub are currently building a smaller version for my daughter. Once it’s finished she can put her drum kit and guitars in there and also her computer games.
It will be where she can hang out with all her friends, so they can talk about girls stuff without daddy being in the way.
Cute!
A little castle for the princess, very nice.
I built ‘Kid Kamp’ for my kids and the neighbors. It was just play mats and a large tent but the neighborhood kids loved it. Alas, they are all teens now and way to cool for the old clubhouse anymore😄
It’ll end up looking similar to this (about 5m x 3m): -
https://images.app.goo.gl/nTq1CUe2d9izikLB9
I’ll post a pic when it’s done.
I tore out some boxwoods that had blight. They had also become overgrown and were choking out my wisteria. There is also another bush in the same area that needs to be removed but just might cut it down for this year. Most of my flower beds are the way I want them.
shareIt’s always something with a large yard.
Cottontails are picking away at my Holly bushes. I may have to wrap the bushes in chicken wire but that’s going to look ugly.
Oh well, a big yard is a healthy distraction, keeps me out of trouble😁
Right now the inside of my house is my priority for this year. I just tore my bathroom down to the studs and did a complete remodel.
It was one of those "what the hell did I get myself into" projects. Lots of water and old termite damage underneath the walls. It turned out beautiful, so I'm happy but I have box gutters in that part of the house that need to be relined - always something with old houses.
Jeez, I feel your pain.
We redid two baths a few years ago and the contractor was here for weeks!
It was irksome to say the least.
I didn't do it myself, but about 4 or so years ago, I had my bathroom re-done. I knew it was beyond my paygrade. It needed it because I knew water had gotten behind the tub wall, thanks to the DIY job the previous owners had done. Luckily, it only took about 3 days before it was usable again (I made a lot of visits to the neighbors' house back then, since I have only one bathroom). It had to be a gut job, but it's all good now - yes that wall was icky. The style doesn't fit the rest of the house, but it's what I could afford at the time - so be it. It's very functional and that's what I needed.
Congratulations to you for tackling yours! 🥂
LOL - the only thing I did was to paint the walls and help with the tile in the shower. My son and (adult) grandson helped and did the demo,(which was a MESS), and I hired my son's ex-FIL who is retired and knows what he's doing for everything else except the shower tile, which my son and I did.. It was a part time project so it took about 10 weeks to complete.