Grass in the back yard!

OK, so there is no grass there yet. But the grass seed has been sown. This last weekend Kristen and I made 4 trips in the truck to pickup compost to spread over the back yard prior to sowing the grass. Every time we do this it is a time consuming process to get it down to the yard. First the truck is parked at the top of the patio and the compost is unloaded into the wheelbarrow. This is wheeled only about 20 feet to the patio where it is dumped. From there we use a chute to transfer the soil from the patio to the wheelbarrow down below. Here is a picture of the chute.

Once the wheel barrow is full it was moved to a spot on the yard and dumped. This resulted in quite a spotted effect.

And once it has been spread out and seeded with grass.

And of course our little helper Samuel was there.

Plants in the Garden

 

We finally got the rest of the plants in the ground. It is a strange assortment of clearance bushes and leftovers from previous year's baskets at the moment. We plan on dividing up some of our flowers from the front and adding them to the bed. We will also plant some new plants next spring.

 

 The plants were surrounded by manure then the bed was covered in a fine bark mulch.

 

Tyler finished spreading the left over dirt on the lawn and filling in low spots. We still need to seed it and pick up a few remaining pieces of trash/compost.

Back Garden Bed - Second Layer

We started to flatten out the soil in the back garden bed and realized that we would probably be taking away too much soil in the back corner around the base of the fence posts. So, we decided to put in a second level into the garden bed for the back area. Here you can see the raised area in the back.

And a close up of the corner with the second layer of bed. You can also see the lanterns that we picked up for the steps.