Back Yard Transformation

In the Summer of 2007, I woke up one morning looked at my back yard and knew I needed to do something. The grass was dead and hard, the garden bed was made of clay. The junipers in the back have been poisoning the grass too.

I started by ripping out the old bed which was made up of 1 x 4's held together by wedges.

Two trenches were dug to cut the roots of the junipers then a new garden bed line was made using 4" x 4" landscape ties two rows high.


Next I bought a truck load of top soil.

After a weekend of shoveling and raking and help from a good friend...

That fall I re-seeded the lawn and moved, so I don't have a finished photo but trust me it looks good.