Let's flashback to the beginning. We don't have any pictures of the huge weeds that made the backyard impossible to be in. But that's probably a good thing, because weeds really don't deserve to be photographed. I don't really want to remember them. At least Matt had a great time running them over with a Bobcat.
After the weeds came the many, many hours of sprinkler work...
laying topsoil over our crummy clay, wheelbarrow by wheelbarrow...
and finally the hydroseed. It required so much patience and so much water and standing out with a hose getting the poor dry spots wet.
But the grass sprouted, although rather spotty.
And then you may remember this spring. Weeds!! They were back and in full force! I couldn't believe how big those things got.
Well, I'm here to let you know that our hard work and patience has paid off. We have a beautiful backyard. Now, it's not even close to perfect and we have many other projects, but we have grass and even trees. Our summer has been full of days swimming in our backyard. I love it!!
Our other pride is our garden. We have been excited to have one this year because we've never really grown anything before. So we built it in March and anxiously waited for the weather to get just right for planting. We planted peas, spinach, carrots, tomatoes, pumpkins and some flowers.
We are proud to say it that everything is growing great! We even harvested the spinach already and made delicious spinach salads. Who knew that spinach had such great flavor! And the peas, ohhh, the peas. They are so sweet and fresh. Now I can't wait for our huge tomatoes to get juicy red.
Although it's been a ton of work, it has been totally worth it to create our own backyard. It's a great sense of accomplishment. There's plenty more to do, but so far we've done okay.
In fact, next year we might have to make a bigger garden.
