We’re waiting until the weather warms up a bit so we can continue work inside the house, specifically concrete repairs to the ground floor (concrete needs to cure in temperatures above 50°F/10°C), so in the meantime we decided to do some garden work especially as the weather was lovely, albeit a little chilly.
We had hoped to put the side area to grass last year but we ran out of time. Our plan now is to seed it next weekend and hopefully get a nice healthy lawn in time for summer frolics. On Saturday we faffed about trying to get a decent level with a couple of planks and a string and then towards of the day I realised that we had a load of leveling guides/planks that we used for the top lawn, doh!!! Two of the six planks were missing so we replaced those, getting some peat for the soil at the same time.
Sunday started slowly, due in part to some birthday inbibes, that said we still managed 7 1/2 hours down the house. It took a while to get the guides together and after that there was a lot of shoveling, raking, stone picking up and tilling with our great little Mantis.
The front ten foot of the ground is where we planted our daffodils so we’ll wait until they’ve flowered and the leaves have died back before we turn that to lawn.
By the way the buckets are for all the stones and pebbles we find.
I would recommend you plant some vegetables because the zombie invasion means you won’t be able to get any in the shops.
We thought of that but I fear the groundhog would eat anything we planted there. That said we do plan to plant some veg in the backyard of our rental this year. The upstairs renter do this so we will just add to their patch 🙂