Blue Century Home: Let the Weed Deforestation Begin!

Our poor yard. It is a bit neglected because we have been concentrating on the inside of the house so much. Plus, because of the new septic installation, it already looks battered. We decided to take a weekend and give the yard some much needed attention.

Our first task was to remove the weeds from around the water well area. The weeds were so bad that it looked like we were purposefully growing a weed garden...NOT that kind of weed! LOL!

This is what it looked like.

I drew an arrow so you could see the well amongst the weeds.

Once the weeds were removed, we raked up all the red gravel in the area. We plan to put a weed barrier down to try to prevent the weeds from returning. Since I didn't like the look of the red gravel against the blue of the house, we transported all the gravel to the back of the yard to surround the firepit. It looks a lot nicer back there. We'll probably put grey or white gravel over the weed barrier. I'll make sure to take a picture of it once the project is complete.

Our Snowball Bush might not have survived this spring and summer, but our Mimosa Bush is thriving in this heat and rain.

In fact, it is doing a little too well. We need to restrain some of the heavier branches so that they don't break off. Hmmm...I wonder when we'll have time to do that!

Another task we did that weekend was to cut down some of the webworm webs in our trees. They especially seem to love our black walnut tree. Some of the webs were too high for us to reach, but we did get all the lower ones.

Here is what they looked like.