What are your yard projects this spring?

Brooke&Ryan

I'm really not into gardening/yard work but I do want to make my outside look really good this spring and summer. What kinds of projects are you doing for the outside this year? I think DH wants to do mulch and a stone border in the flower beds around the house and I want to make these flower pots with numbers:  http://thediyshowoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/house-number-flower-pots.html .

bonjourbelle05

We bought a house last spring and were so overwhelmed with all the work that needed to be done inside (it was a foreclosure, so the previous owners left it a mess!!) that we never got to the outside.  My goal this summer is to get some wildflowers going in the side yard and I would like to get a small vegetable garden going as well (maybe 4 or 5 things with room to expand).  I would like to do the front flower beds as well, but not sure if we'll have the finances to do what I want to do up there (waterfall, etc).

fxz109

We have several on our list, but we'll see how many we actually start, never mind complete!

rip out the overgrown shrubs in front of the house.

plant some trees around the yard.

start a vegetable garden.

put border and mulch around the trees and the mail box.

lindyanne

We are doing rubber mulch, may put in a few more plants, reseeding grass (especially one 7' or so circle where our three dogs peed for three weeks straight after all the snow - ugh), and planting a small garden.  I am also going to put in some pathway lights along our front walk but I'll just be getting solar ones so that should just be an easy fix.

Me&Mr.T

I just weeded and mulched. I did a TON of yard work in the front yard last year and a little in the side. This year I want to work on the side and the back yard, and hopefully put in a patio. We'll see though. We want to move in a year or two so we aren't sure if we want to put in any more money into this house.

jsangel101

We are planning on a small patio to hold our grill and a table with a few chairs. My father in law will be teaching us the ropes. We are very excited to build it on our own.

ntnylizard

How timely for this question.  After two years of doing what we could do, we just bit the bullet and hired a landscaper to do everything else that would take us years to accomplish.  Pull out trees, bushes, rocks, sod and more; grade everything with topsoil; and seed, fertilize and water a lawn.  And they'll do it all in TWO DAYS. 

Money well spent, even if we are moving in a year or few.

That's all I want -- an easy-to-maintain lawn where this nightmare of overgrown gardens are.

Then after the contractors are done (Blouch's are awesome so far, by the way), then we'll re-weed and mulch, and put a veggie garden out back.

But those flower pot numbers are awesome!  May have to do something like that, since our mailbox has never had numbers on it...