April 23, 2014 2:49 pm
Here is New England it is finally finally been feeling like spring the past week or so (freak snow storm or two aside).
So you know what that means in New England? That’s right, yard work!
You may remember from some posts from last year like this one, this one, this one, and this one how last year we had a semi-dead/semi-crabgrass lawn.
Well now its all dead. Which may or not be better than crabgrass – we’re not sure, but what we know for sure is that as the onslaught of snow finally melted the neighbors all had green grass peeking through and we had brown. We are officially THAT house in the neighborhood, and most likely will be for another year or so.
With the long weekend Easter provided to Ken he decided to capitalize on the day off and take Thursday as well to get a leg up on the yard work. Before the lawn can be prepped to be re-seeded (most likely this fall) it needed to be de-rocked.
As you may or may not know the lot our home sits on used to be part of a Christmas Tree farm. When they leveled the lawn they left the majority of the roots in the soil (nice of them right). Along with all the roots were tons and tons of rocks. Many of the roots we pulled last year as they surfaced, but the rocks we left… until now.
Here is a picture of the front next to the driveway where you can see several piles of smaller rocks all around – and our lovely brown grass.
In the back was a spectacularly large rock boulder that required the help of a friend of ours and his pick up truck to remove.
So now the yard is de-rocked and awaiting a load of top soil to fill in all the newly created holes and level out the slump in the back that turns into a makeshift pond whenever it rains.
After all that hard work (that Ken did – I was at actual work not working nearly as hard) we unwinded by taking a wine blending class and creating our our custom Bordeaux wine blends!
Have you been taking advantage of the 50 degree plus days by getting out in your lawn? I’d love to hear what yard work you’ve accomplished!
Posted by Danielle
Categories: Outside, The Hicks
Tags: crab grass, custom wine, dead grass, diy, hicks house, hicks wine, New England, rock removal, yard work
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