Day one of our backyard project
Today, along with a ton of other things, we worked on our backyard. Posted here you will see what we call the "flood plane" aka "garden area". That tree in the back right corner is mostly dead and is going to be cut down in the coming weeks by my father - so Jon and I have started a mission to get all of the vegetation out of this area, dig up and cap off the sprinklers, and get it ready to be rototilled, leveled, and a french drain installed. This dirt you see is very deceiving. It's not dirt. It's clay. I don't know how anything is growing in there. And, under all that dry cracked clay is a ton of ants. Every time Jon dug up another plant - another ant hill was distrubed and ants would start crawling everywhere. Those plants in the back by the almost dead tree - hydrangeas. They are almost as tall as me and they have a root system that is like 2-3 feet deep. Trying to dig all of this out was very difficult and very time consuming. We made some progress then decided the next day to buy some Round Up and just kill it all first.
You can read more about our backyard project here.
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