yard work

well, saturday was a day to remember. i don't think i have ever seen a crappier day in july. i can't imagine what it was like out at the folk festival. speaking of the folk festival (segwaaaaay), the front yard project is finally starting to take shape. two years ago i decided that lawns were boring monocultures - well that, and i was tired of cutting the damn thing every five days. so i decided to kill the lawn and replace it with xeriscaping. (interesting info here and here on xeriscaping) why the reference to the folk festival, well to kill it the lawn i placed tarps over it for a whole summer - thereby making it look the tarps placed in front of the main stage at the folk festival


any ways, the lawn finally died after a year (my neighbour thought that roundup would work pretty well too - tarps get better attention) and after rototilling i replaced the tarp with woodchips


well, we are into the final phase of this project and we started planting native plants, grasses, bushes, and trees in place of grass. i anticipate this final phase should take 5-7 years before everything is mature.