Yard work, shmard-work

Remember what our house looked like when we bought it back in January 2010? I didn't think so ... here is a little refresher. Notice the massive bushes and lovely chain link fence.

Before - house with fence and bushes

Well after all the snow melted, this is what we found everywhere ... overgrown weeds!

Before side yard with overgrown weeds

More before side yard with overgrown weeds

Well something had to be done about this! So we (aka Don) made some beautiful planter boxes for a garden instead.

Our garden

This is our first garden and kind of an experiment. We are growing cilantro, green onions, basil, carrots, zuchini, cucumbers, summer squash, peas and pumpkins. So far our pumpkins are doing the best and growing like crazy.

Pumpkins!

We also finally added some flowers to our planter boxes under the windows.

Beautiful flowers!

Our yard work seemed to be going smoothly, until we (aka Don) used the wrong weed spray on the rest of the yard and ended up killing our lawn instead. Woops! You win some, you loose some.

Before - dead front lawn April 2011

So we (aka Don) set out to do something about this mess and spent a very long, rainy weekend re-sodding our front lawn.

Before

After - no fence, no bushes, new lawn, planter boxes, flowers and tree!

And to top off all of our planting, we added a delicious apple tree to the yard.

Honeycrisp Apple Tree

I think we are done with yard work for a while!