We got a landscaping estimate for fixing the grading on our lawns and seeding a micro-clover mix. IT'S HAPPENING.
If you don't mind, how much? My backyard has some horrifically weird sloping issues I'd love to get flattened out, and I want to redo the backyard into all clover.
Grading, seeding, and the cost of the seed is currently set to be $1200. Our lawn is 3800 sqft.
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The fence is not quite as nice as I wanted it to be, but I got a good price for it and it's still pretty great (and miles ahead of the broken-down thing we had before). I can now, finally, start planting things near the fence without having to worry about workers tromping on things.
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"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
The squirrels really seem to be enjoying running along the top of it. So it has that going for it, too. It's now much easier for them to get to their home...inside the wall of the neighbor's house.
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One of my wishes has always been to build cat tunnels into the fence once we had a good one, @Strikor... but that would give them one more annoying hiding place at bedtime.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
seller refused to budge. contract terminated! back to the drawing board
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Ok so at long last I've mulched my strawberries:
We also had a concord grape vine growing indoors for the last few months that I wasn't comfortable planting until we had a new fence. Here it is planted and mulched:
I had a Niagara (white) grape vine I bought last year, but I didn't mulch it and it didn't survive to this year, so the concord is it.
Here is my biggest peach so far this year, likely to be my first edible of the season:
Also here's a view of just the new fence:
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
Metal posts with a wood fence is good, like a sacrificial anode, it stops the wood from rusting.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited April 2019
Metal posts on wood fences is pretty much required in this part of the country if you want them to last a decade. Wood in the ground rots in no time at all, whether or not it's got a concrete footing. Dallas is all Great Plains to the horizon, but it's a damn jungle from the topsoil down.
That's a real good fence you got there! I like the stain color a lot.
I sharpened my lawn mower blade today with my new rotary tool. It seems balanced? I put it on a nail and it didn't egregiously tip one way or the other.
Last weekend I had a rough time taking down a five year old tree that was threatening to damage my fence. Home ownership is a PROCESS.
A process of acquiring new tools for each project, until you sit upon a glorious throne of tools! (I may be banned from going to Lowes/Home Depot by myself....)
Our apple tree is blooming and it's possible that all of the grafts survived the first winter! Also, an unexpected bonus of the hybrid tree is different colored flowers! I'll post a better picture when it's more in bloom but I'm excited so you get this one for now.
My parents have a fig tree, a lemon tree, a couple of apple trees, and a WHOLE LOT of night time animal visitors.
Oh, and sometimes rotten fruit on the ground.
The trouble is our yard is so awkwardly shaped and also very shaded! The sunniest area is probably the front yard.
I’ve posted a fair amount in the plants thread, but Mori’s mom gave me a huckleberry and only after I planted it (where she suggested I plant it), I read that although it’ll likely grow well enough where it is, it probably won’t ever grow fruit worth eating because it requires more sun to grow good berries.
Also for the next couple of months at least my budget for the yard is nil. I already planted $150 worth of plants this month and I do have seeds from Mori’s mom, plus a lemon balm and she’s also promising us more offshoots in the future!
My next plan, when it’s a sunny day, is to map out a sun map of the yard so I can know exactly how much sun each area gets. It hasn’t been sunny when I’ve been home in a few weeks (these rainy weekends!) so I have to try and remember how much sun each area gets from memory. We also weren’t here in the summer.
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"Full sun" depends a LOT on what state you're in. In Texas, "full sun" means "better find a shady spot, because full sun will kill everything." And yes that applies to fruiting plants, too - my tomatoes die in full sun, but grow me plenty of fruit when I plant them next to the fence.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
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"Full sun" depends a LOT on what state you're in. In Texas, "full sun" means "better find a shady spot, because full sun will kill everything." And yes that applies to fruiting plants, too - my tomatoes die in full sun, but grow me plenty of fruit when I plant them next to the fence.
Haha, true! It was a challenge finding plants that survived in California at times.
We’re in Washington now, so by shady I mean quite a lot of my yard sees extremely little sun.
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Ya'll this rain is cray.
My next major project has definitely got to be making drainage work in my back yard. (luckily the front yard has drainage on lock).
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
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"Full sun" depends a LOT on what state you're in. In Texas, "full sun" means "better find a shady spot, because full sun will kill everything." And yes that applies to fruiting plants, too - my tomatoes die in full sun, but grow me plenty of fruit when I plant them next to the fence.
Ha ha yeah it's like that in Australia too, we have some potted cacti that can't take full sun in the Summer time...
I missed this when you posted it and just watched it now. I love these kinds of videos, I wish I had the energy to do something like this. I do hope to grow a lot more of what I eat, but it's hard. The effect of this video was to cause me to plant more seeds in my peat starters than I was originally planning to, then to order a couple of packets of seeds for veggies I don't have seeds for yet (leeks and banana peppers).
Currently indoors I'm growing: grape tomatoes, borage, cabbage, lavender, zucchini, cucumber and spinach. The tomatoes are the only one actually germinated. Edit: And I just started some chickpeas and onions, too.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I'd like to get back into gardening, but I grew up gardening in the desert. You planted stuff and watered it, and then you defended the surrounding square foot and you got food. In Oklahoma, you're up against a whole hostile ecosystem. The grass throws up creeping tentacles and weeds sneak in via underground rhizomes and there's some sort of rogue fucking tree root and if you manage to fight off the plants suddenly ten thousand ants are eating your squash blossoms.
A friend of mine does a ghetto-ass sort of raised garden made from sacks of topsoil on sawhorses. She just cuts them open, puts seeds in them, and grows her tomatoes three feet above all the hurly burly. I think I might try something like that this summer.
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Yea we do raised beds and it's super easy. We run six 4'x4' beds and it takes about 15 minutes a week to keep care of them, beyond watering. We love it.
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FYI, if anyone else is interested in getting seeds, I just found this place and it not only has every seed I was looking for, it has a lot of rare varieties I've never heard of:
FYI, if anyone else is interested in getting seeds, I just found this place and it not only has every seed I was looking for, it has a lot of rare varieties I've never heard of:
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Oh I've bought from johnny seeds before. They didn't have a lot of stuff that rare seeds does. Like I've been wanting to plant mullein forever, and rare seeds is the first place that actually had some seeds for it.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
And in the continuing genre of mixing erotica and real estate, we have this promo video from Down Under that looks more like it's promoting...something else:
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Grading, seeding, and the cost of the seed is currently set to be $1200. Our lawn is 3800 sqft.
we put in a final offer asking for concessions based on the inspection
i think the offer is fair. but i can say it's a lot more fun and economical to bid on a house when you don't "need" it
being able to say "I am willing to walk away from this" is a very powerful bargaining tool, the final offer is about 18k below asking
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
We also had a concord grape vine growing indoors for the last few months that I wasn't comfortable planting until we had a new fence. Here it is planted and mulched:
I had a Niagara (white) grape vine I bought last year, but I didn't mulch it and it didn't survive to this year, so the concord is it.
Here is my biggest peach so far this year, likely to be my first edible of the season:
Also here's a view of just the new fence:
that is bitchin'
That's a real good fence you got there! I like the stain color a lot.
It is a good quiet street in a neighbourhood thst is pretty good.
House is mostly boxes right now.
Last weekend I had a rough time taking down a five year old tree that was threatening to damage my fence. Home ownership is a PROCESS.
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A process of acquiring new tools for each project, until you sit upon a glorious throne of tools! (I may be banned from going to Lowes/Home Depot by myself....)
Yeah, having a BATNA that isn't "oh I'm going to be homeless" is very helpful.
Do eeet.
Oh, and sometimes rotten fruit on the ground.
So, you know, good and bad.
I’ve posted a fair amount in the plants thread, but Mori’s mom gave me a huckleberry and only after I planted it (where she suggested I plant it), I read that although it’ll likely grow well enough where it is, it probably won’t ever grow fruit worth eating because it requires more sun to grow good berries.
Also for the next couple of months at least my budget for the yard is nil.
My next plan, when it’s a sunny day, is to map out a sun map of the yard so I can know exactly how much sun each area gets. It hasn’t been sunny when I’ve been home in a few weeks (these rainy weekends!) so I have to try and remember how much sun each area gets from memory. We also weren’t here in the summer.
We've got an apple tree, a pear tree, a fig tree, a mulberry tree and raspberry bushes.
It's great
Haha, true! It was a challenge finding plants that survived in California at times.
We’re in Washington now, so by shady I mean quite a lot of my yard sees extremely little sun.
My next major project has definitely got to be making drainage work in my back yard. (luckily the front yard has drainage on lock).
Ha ha yeah it's like that in Australia too, we have some potted cacti that can't take full sun in the Summer time...
Cacti!
I missed this when you posted it and just watched it now. I love these kinds of videos, I wish I had the energy to do something like this. I do hope to grow a lot more of what I eat, but it's hard. The effect of this video was to cause me to plant more seeds in my peat starters than I was originally planning to, then to order a couple of packets of seeds for veggies I don't have seeds for yet (leeks and banana peppers).
Currently indoors I'm growing: grape tomatoes, borage, cabbage, lavender, zucchini, cucumber and spinach. The tomatoes are the only one actually germinated. Edit: And I just started some chickpeas and onions, too.
A friend of mine does a ghetto-ass sort of raised garden made from sacks of topsoil on sawhorses. She just cuts them open, puts seeds in them, and grows her tomatoes three feet above all the hurly burly. I think I might try something like that this summer.
edit: last I looked you can get cheap flatpack corrugated or pressed timber beds for like, $40-$60 each.
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https://www.rareseeds.com/
Plus shipping is free, and this is the only place online so far I've found that does that.
This place is the shit, to be honest:
https://www.johnnyseeds.com
How likely is my house to catch on fire?
unlikely, that just vents to the exhaust
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Yeah, it's SFW...but looks like it's on the verge of becoming, well, not.
The ones that aren't just some guy shouting "Doors! Doors! Doors!", anyway.