landscaping Tag Posts Index

Irrigation Installation Day, Sore Beyond Words - Monday

Holy shit was yesterday rough on my body! After getting the boys to school I loaded up the car and headed to my client's to install the irrigation system. I fell

Session, Parts, 26.5 Mile Bike Ride, Mowing, Trailer - Tuesday

After getting the boys to school I went to my weekly session and then stopped at North 40 for dog food, but I ended up getting some of the parts for the irrigation

Garden and yard landscaping

We have a part of the yard where there was practically nothing. Between the woodshed and the greenhouse. In this part of the yard there was only a part with sand

Gravel Shopping

Sigh... this was something that we had been putting off for quite a while. Our house is currently surrounded by various piles of rock, mulch, and other things that

Inspiring Open Garden, & New Pots for Me

G'day gardeners of Hive! I've been sooo terrible about writing about my own garden because no soon do I take a few photos ready to post than I'm onto a new garden

Planting Day

Finally planted my cherry tomatoes today. Been putting that off for a while now. Waiting on the last frost to pass. Also waiting for it to get closer to May time.

Агрус

Є у мене надворі одне місце, яке ніяк не піддавалося благоустрою. Тут колись давно, ще за часів тримання батьками свиней, кіз та курей, були грядки і яма для зберігання

Anti DIY Garden Tidy Up

I don't want to paint, says my man. I'm fed up with DIY. And I get it - a photo memory popped up from ten years ago where he was removing and installing a window

My Actifit Report Card: November 9 2025

Grain run this morning and I checked the other brewery in case as sometimes they don't tell me right away but there was none. I worked my ass off today but got the

Colours in the City

As the fall season rolls along, nature is bursting with colours in the city. Soon, the trees will be bare, a scraggly naked version of their former selves as they

Lawn Wars : Kikuyu vs Paspalum

When we first moved into our new house back in 2023 the front and back yards were a mess. There was no landscaping done and the builders has pretty much trashed

My Actifit Report Card: August 18 2025

I am NOT down with opp.. other people's problems. More to the point I really dislike shoddy workmanship and whoever built this water feature 16 years ago fucked

Rain, Harvests, Landscaping Work, More Potatoes, 3DP Reserve Board, Trailer - Thursday

Cool and foggy yesterday morning after the rains. The tenth of an inch did a lot to wash the dust off everything and made the trees look much better. It was a soggy

My Actifit Report Card: August 7 2025

Nice cool day today and sone somid storms were in the region over the day. Landscaping work today and have a list of tasks to bid/do. Harvested in garden, have a

Fixing a Broken Sprinkler Head

In a recent post, I mentioned accidentally mulching my neighbor's sprinkler head while I was taking care of her lawn when she went on vacation. I also fixed it.

Dream Path?

I'm lucky enough to have a very handy man around the place - Jamie'll build most things I have dreamt about. My chicken coop, various fences and gates, a polytunnel,

Mid Year Garden Journal - Is It Winter or Summer for You?

I have to confess that this week this admin will be in Bali for a week, but she'll try to upvote and reblog when she isn't snorkelling or lounging by the pool admiring

Weekend Mission: Work With Gravel For The Landscaping Project

Remember the time when we cleaned the garden and sorted the stones? ‎ ‎I mean, when we scrub the stones clean and put them back neatly in the garden? ‎ ‎It didn't

A journey of cassava to garri

Cassava is one of the most important crops where I come from, and growing up, I always saw it as more than just a plant—it was a lifeline. One of the most common

Squlching the Front Garden Bed With the Little Tacker

'Is the squlch truck coming?' said my grandson, because he's two, and he can say cute things. He means 'mulch truck', and it's a delight to watch him watch the squlch