Thank you Julie, yes we work quite well together and make a good team. The only thing we don’t see eye to eye on is junk! LOL But I think there’s still hope for him!

Thank you Myra, It really is nice having the brick pathways and we didn’t see any weeds at all come through them last year. Some ants managed to come up! We used the polymeric sand which sets up hard and helps to cut down on weeds. I still found that even though the gardens were raised up, it still required a lot of bending… especially to thin seedlings. I bought a cute little tractor seat on wheels that helped a lot. Luckily I didn’t have much weeding to do last year. I love your garden treasures too Myra!

Thank you Cindy, we put the lines in under the brick so that each raised garden had their own spigot. Then we used drip lines on top of the ground so that each plant could have their own required amount of water and also on timers. I love DIG! Makes my life so easy especially when we’re gone on vacation.

Thank you Ann, I’m very excited to get started this spring too. As you can see you can still plant happy flowers in with the veggies for some color. We’d love to see photos of your gardens!

Your back yard transformation is a huge success, and both you and hubby should be proud of what you have accomplished.

Thanks for sharing with us.

Myra

Thanks George, he must be pretty happy out in the front where he can watch the world go by. He has a big ole smile on his face all the time!

thanks so much for the itemized list of expenses ~ the results look gorgeous!

Thank you eclectic faerie, the total cost was about $4000. That could be trimmed down by having more helpers to cut down on the cost of equipment rentals etc., and also you could use a less expensive wood for the planter boxes, and another material for walk ways like pea gravel.

Brick = $500, Equipment rentals = $1,000 (sod cutter, Dingo, compactor/tamper) Sand/gravel = $600, Redwood = $1,200, Soil = $250 Misc. Sprinkler parts, screws, glue, burgers and beer! = $250.