As I mentioned in an earlier post, most work on house is on hold until we get roof and foundations fixed, hence our work on the garden. Our latest plan is to put everything to grass. We may build walls and paths through all of this later but at least we can see what is growing (i.e. poison ivy) and mowing is easier than weeding.
We started off with digging up the worst part of vines using our trusty Hoss Fork (it’s a beast of a fork but I would have liked slightly deeper tongs). After a couple of days I soon got tired of that so we got rid of the rest with weed killer and a flame thrower (think big bunsen burner). The burner is a lot of fun but Aimee finds it a bit scary.
We have probably had about 8 bonfires over the last couple of weekends which will have saved us at least one dumpster/skip. The morning after a bonfire the embers are usually still glowing so it’s easy to get stared again. All the fence went on the fire 🙂 We did keep the fires reasonably small so we wouldn’t annoy the neighbours.
Progress has been pretty slow as it’s been humid and in the low 90’s (32C) and it drains you really quickly. Next we want to grade the land as it has bumps and dips etc so it will be a lot of digging and wheel-barrowing and then we will have to put a tiller through it all so lots more work.
We did dig up another concrete path at the side of the house so we’ll be looking to getting another skip soon – carrying that stuff was hard.
Some of these pics were taken early in the year, hence the lack of green.