My Biggest Landscaping Job..EVER. Part 1

by Teresa

We bought a large piece of land and have a 10 acre " homestead". Before we built our home, garage, greenhouse, shed, etc.. it was a canola field.

It has been a lot of work but it is getting there.

This post is here, not only to show you what I have done, but to remind me when I think.. "There is so much to do.. how can I ever..." How far we have come in 2 years.

my biggest landscaping job ever part 1, landscape

November 21 2013- we put our offer to purchase for a piece of land. This hill, is where we chose to put our house site.

The offer was accepted and we put in our driveway. We needed access. Didn't have time to wait for spring we needed to be living there by August 2014

The shell of the house was up and the deck went on,

Gardens went in around the decks very fast - I was moving perennials from one house to the other.. at this point the hard part was we had no water, gas or electricity. ( but we did have an outhouse)

By September we were in and were building ur yard and our garage.

I collected rocks - all of these are from on our property - we ended up with 4 piles like this.

And I started with the first 'detached" garden and planted 1200 tree with my husband.

The morning view is improving.

Getting there!

And at the same time, we parged our foundation and I started on the side garden. Thank goodness for owning a skid-steer while moving some of these rocks ( again - all from the 10 acre homestead site)

November 2014 - the reseeding canola- ( I hate this stuff) is still coming back, but I am done with landscaping for 2014 - time to work on the inside of the house again..

The back garden in spring of 2016

Getting ready to put in grass - all seed...

Side garden in the spring of 2016

April 2016..All the canola has been hand pulled after tilling 4 times and spraying twice did not remove it - now we have dirt. We had dug the pond out but had to make it deeper again, as it was spreading out too much...

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Daniel on Feb 25, 2017
I have done the rock drainage about 18" wide- my problem is keeping leaves out

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- Teresa on Feb 25, 2017
  None of my trees are big enough to cause that problem for me yet! Normally I use a small gravel rake to get them out ( last house)
  
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Liz IsTired on Mar 06, 2017
Wow I love this. It is so much hard working moving into a new place. You have done a great job so far!

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- Teresa on Mar 07, 2017
  Thank you, there is a part 2 to this and a part 3 coming up!! LOL
  
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