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#yardwork

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

Waiting for my first doordash order after spending some time in the yard today moving the project along...

Repurposed one of the garden boxes from the back where the new patio/bbq/paellaria will be beside the #poolPond to the front around the northern spy apple.

Also pulled the dead stuff from the front flower box and added new dirt.

Will need to get some fabric or chicken wire to keep the neighbour cats out of the apple tree box.

I look at the backyard. It's a bit of a disaster. But there is progress. The large pool is empty now as is the other two smaller holes. All of the extra rubber and garden liner is in a pile beside the dirt. The garden boxes have been removedcompletely as the mail felt that was underneath the car. There is fresh dirt turned over it all needs to be leveled.
A garden box is around a small apple tree on the left hand side of a small driveway. There's a car to the right and a trailer behind.
A small apple tree stands in a box of dirt on the right side of the picture. The box is long and goes along the bottom of the side of the house. The house is blue.
#garden#home#yardwork
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Garrett Sharpe
So this post will be an introduction to one topic I want to cover on here: the issue of invasive species. Here in central North Carolina, our yards and the native spaces attached to those yards are covered in foreign species, mostly from Asia, that include English ivy, Chinese privet, glossy privet, nandina, leatherleaf mahonia, Rose of Sharon, Japanese honeysuckle, and many other species. These plants are planted partly for mindless reasons (the stores sell them, and people buy them without knowing they are a huge problem), but partly because people see plants as decoration instead of living things. Yard owners don't want their yard plants full of holes from bugs eating them, and these plants remain pristine because no insect in America has the ability to eat them. Yardowners also want quick gratification and pick plants that grow quickly. When you combine the traits of pest-immunity and quick growth together, you get a plant that escapes the yard and takes over every space it enters. As these plants expand and displace native plants in the few places we don't pave over, the result is starvation of native insects and all of the animals that feed on those insects. Imagine trying to go to a grocery store and realizing all of the food around you is made of plastic. That is the reality for our native bugs, and that is why insect populations have been halved in the last half century. To say this is a dire situation is frankly an understatement, and there are other factors I won't get into on this post that make the issue even worse.

One of my side projects in life is to remove English ivy and restore my neighborhood's native spaces. It's hard work, but I've restored 12 properties so far. If you can, please consider removing harmful species from your yard and planting native, your yard can become a haven for our wildlife.

#invasivespecies #plants #englishivy #nativeplants #habitat #ecyosystems #northcarolina #habitatrestoration #yard #yardwork #nature
#KillYourLawn
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

Fun fact: One of the main reasons I started on this journey of reimagining our front and back yard was because mowing the lawn felt utterly stupid and pointless. Especially the front yard which is why I made the ponds and gardens there during the pandemic. My goal is not to remove the natural surface but instead to just have nice grassy (or alternative-planty) pathways. #BackyardProject #yardwork #diy #home #gardening #pondLife #portAlberni

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

Progress! We have to clear out everything to the right of the garden boxes so that we can lift almost all the grass, dig a trench for power and water to the shed, and dig the three holes for the pool-pond, pond filter, and intake bay next Saturday!

Goodbye fire pit! You served us well and will be reincarnated elsewhere! Goodbye garden boxes! You will make way to store the car for now and later, a greenhouse!
#BackyardProject #yardwork #diy #home #gardening #pondLife #portAlberni

Amount of dirt lies between two rows of garden boxes in a small yard.
The outline of a round fire pit
A wide view of the backyard
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DeadTOm

I'm so completely over having a lawn. Yeah, it looks nice, but the only ones that use it are the dogs, and they don't care what it looks like. It's a giant waste of water, and I spend a ridiculous amount of time keeping it up.

Need to figure out something else to do with the yard, other than grass.

#Grass#HomeOwner#Lawn
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

This is step... 3? (after the side path and the tool locker under the deck) of a much larger backyard project that will see the end of our old shed, the building of a new (large)greenhouse/(small)car workshop, and... a natural pool with bog style filter! Amongst many other things. Anyone else use OmniGraffle? Love that app! So useful for this kind of layout. Here's a pic to compare with the design posted on our backroom wall! #yardwork #digdug #PortAlberni #gardening #BackyardProject

A .5 wide shot of our backyard. It is quite long covered mostly in grass. There is a medium size hazelnut tree just to the right of center. There are various tools and other household items around the yard as I move things around. A small chicken coop is to the left. Some stairs go up to the deck from a cement landing in the bottomleft corner.
A picture of a diagram shows the backyard from above. A large blue rectangle and circular blue area are the pond and filter. Various other shapes are all around the rest of the perimeter of the yard including the greenhouse or car shed. Sitting area. Some garden boxes for food. The chicken coop. And Stone for path.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

Pre-high-noon-heat yard work is done for the day. Managed to finish spreading rock for the landing under the deck. Got another load (700kg!) of rock from the concrete place. Shoveled some of that around, then took a break, had some food, and just now did 30 final minutes in the 32°C+ heat digging out the pad for the small metal shed.
33.9°C on the yard station (@alberniweather)when I walked in the door at 1PM!
Siesta time!
#yardwork #portAlberni #heat #heatwave

Fresh grey 1" river rock is spread out evenly at the top of some cement stairs that go down into a basement door. To the left is a grey tall narrow tool shed.
A small aluminium trailer is filled with rock.
A roughly rectangular area of 7x4 feet has dirt turned over beside a fence, some plants and an old shed. A shovel is leaning against a small hand trailer.
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Edge 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

Needed to cut back some massively overgrown "ground cover" creeping juniper (that is way too big for the spot, but that's another story.) About 45 feet of it overhanging the boulder retaining wall.

Am still vertical, but barely. It was a lot more work than it appears. I like those rocks, and the juniper will creep again...

A half-boulder retaining wall surrounds 3 Hinoki cypress trees on the outside of a metal fence, with sloping green lawn in front of it. (The trees are very squirrely-looking, with pointed, open branches, and curling tops. After 6 years they've barely grown at all, and look more like statuary.) Up on the level with the trees, and cascading down over the 12-18" tall boulders that make up the wall is some light green evergreen ground cover, some of it reaching apparently 2 feet into the yard. Not, perhaps, the perfectly-sized ground cover for the space. The photo shows where I began hacking, er, carefully cutting the juniper back on the right, exposing the rocks again, and neatening the area. I also cleverly waited until the sun had reached this spot. The green was nice, but I like those rocks. The juniper will grow again...
#Landscaping#Plants#Yardwork
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