On a un joli bout de terre de 800m2 (0.2 acres), un peu de plat, et pas mal de pente a l'arrière. Quand Hubby passe la tondeuse ça sent fort l'oignon puisque la plante a décidé d'envahir la pelouse. Je me demande d'ailleurs si il ne ferrait pas mieux de tondre avec un masque de plongée... Mais la je suis hors-sujet.
On y fait quoi? On plante? On semé? On ratisse? Que nenni! On nettoie.
On nettoie les ordures laissées ici et la par les propriétaires précédents...
We have a house, but we also have a yard. I didn't talk much about it because well, the first few months the priority was to the house. But now that the earth is at rest we can eventually start working on it.
We have a pretty piece of land of 800 sq meters (0.2 acres), a little bit of flat, but mainly a slope in the back. When Hubby mows the lawn it smells strongly of onions since the plant decided to invade our backyard. I'm actually wondering if he shouldn't mow the lawn with a diving mask... But I'm getting sidetracked.
What are we doing in it? Planting? Sowing? Raking? Not at all! We are cleaning.
Cleaning the trash the previous owner dumped here and there...
Sadly I don't have any before picture. But Hubby worked tremendously against the fence separating us from the house to our right. He removed bushes, ivy and thorny bushes. You can now see the "wall", bricks (probably left-overs from the house's construction) and other weird items used to mark the limits between the properties.
Here is the brushes pile, from last week, since then it almost doubled in size.
The back of the yard is invaded by vegetation as shown on this picture taken last june, right after the wind storm.
Sur la photo qui suit, dans l'angle, on peut bien voir la différence, toute la partie avec le sol brun était couvertes de buisson (voir photo ci dessus).
We're making good use of winter and the lack of leaves to get working on it. Removing the ivy which would choke the trees if left too long (including a beautiful black walnut tree). Removing the old rusted fence in which ivy is en-laced and at the bottom of which trash abounds. But mainly cut all those bloody (excuse my words) thorn covered plants.
On the following picture, in the angle, you can see the differncem all the brown ground used to be covered with bushes (see picture above).
We worked hard yesterday, but there is still work to do.
Although next time, even if it's warm I'll wear long sleeves. #@*^% thorns!
I can't wait to be able to think about what we will plant: herbs, sunflowers, etc.