HOw To BACKYARD BEFORE AND AFTER
Periodically we like to see the results of our hard work in before and after photos and thought we'd share these. I was looking through some old photos and found a great "before" photo and so I decided to stand in the same spot and get a new 'after'. Backyard before Here is the backyard before. Those trees and shrubs and vines went almost all the way through to the other side. There were a few open spots but I when I got the mower, I would start mowing a little wider each time, clearing more and more. At times I would get out the shears and hacksaw and clear by hand as many of the vines as possible. When we were finally left with just a few junk trees, we hired a guy to safely cut them down. For a while, it was just mud and dirt. And tire ruts. We decided I would j ust mow it over and over for a season (or two), sprinkled out some grass seed one early Spring and eventually the ruts filled in, th...