Yardwork Yo (frontyard edition)

We were on such a roll with the backyard, the next day we decided to just keep our hard work up in the front yard.  Which previously looked like this…

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Needs some work huh?  We knew this was going to be a big project.

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Look at this mess.

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I started by moving all of the old white border bricks our of the garden to the road.

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Meanwhile, Justin was shoveling out roots and stumps from the old holly bushes that he cut down a while back.

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Did I mention that these front gardens were filled with rocks instead of mulch, black ugly rocks? So we went to it shoveling and shoveling and shoveling rocks into contractor garbage bags.

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These bags are all filled with rocks.

Initially, we planned to head to Lowe’s once things were cleared out.  This process took so long that we decided adding the new plants would have to wait till another day.

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Once things were semi manageable we started adding in mulch.

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And with all the mulch in…

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BAM!

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So once our backs stop aching and our calluses heal we will add some plants to these gardens.  And guess what? We will keep you updated!