Punte domestiche quotidiane di rinnovamento

Now that we had removed all of the plants from the gardens in the front of our house that were not in our plans for the remodeled garden, we were ready for the next step.

The plan we received back from the garden planner indicated that we should reshape the main garden in the front of the house.

Here, as presented in prior article in this series is the garden plan returned to us.

Notice that the left side was to be not as sharp but more rounded while the area against the wall was to be more straight. So that is what we did next.

To reshape the garden we used the edger tool that we use to keep the lawn edge straight and not protruding over a sidewalk or driveway.

This effort took longer than I first thought it would. Why? Well, once I started I noticed that the prior owner of our house had let things go in the garden for a while. The grass from the lawn had crept into the flower bed part of the garden more than a foot in some places.

So, once I used the edger tool (above) to outline the new shape of the garden I used a shovel  to remove a significant amount of the grass from the edge of the garden bed. Here’s a picture of the right side of the main garden just reshaped.

Now, all of this excess grass was going to be placed in many of those large paper mulch recyclable bags. That would mean we would need a lot of those bags. So, what I did was to place the pieces of sod upside down on the lawn as I removed them from the garden bed. Notice the upside down pieces of sod on the front lawn in the picture below.

This would do two things. It would leave the roots as well as the dirt underneath the sod exposed to the sun which would quickly dry the dirt. This would then, in a few hours, allow me to easily remove much of the dirt from underneath before I would place the unwanted sod in the recyclable paper bags. This would then take up less space in the bags, thus reduce the number of bags I would need.

Second, what did I do with the dirt removed from the unwanted sod? I simply left it on the grass to provide nutrients to the front lawn.

In our next article in this series about our garden makeover we receive fresh ‘dirt’.

To continue with the next article in this series, simply select this link to Part 7.