Tomorrow we start a landscaping project here at the house. We have rented a wood chipper and backhoe for the week and expect delivery of 15 yards of mulch along with 22 yards of dirt. If we don't knock the foundation out from under the house, we plan to (carefully) remove the landscaping around the house, dig out some of the hard packed clay that is refusing to allow the plants to grow, replace it with soil/sand mixture and put most of the plants right back where they were. Some plants, such as yews which is really deer caviar, will be completely removed and replaced with deer resistant plants.
While this is NOT the ideal time to be taking on this project (most of the plants are in their prime growing season), it is the time we have available to do it. So OnWard We Go! I'll post before, during, and after pictures but I don't think we'll see the real results of this work until three years down the road after the plants have had a chance to re-establish themselves.
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