Mulching
This was a good weekend for yardwork. Outside of some rain on Saturday night and some drizzle this morning, the weather was reasonably mild. On Saturday I laid down another 12 square feet of cedar mulch underneath the holly tree in the front yard (for a total of 24 square feet since last week). The holly tree, which is huge, now has a nice ring of mulch underneath it, but it's still only an inch or two deep.
I also put down a bag of turf builder (on the old lawn only, not the new stuff growing over the loam that was spread after the water pipe was installed) in time for the rain on Saturday night. So it's been a reasonably busy weekend on the home front. The net result, though, is a nice healthy-looking yard.
Come next spring, I'd like to do some more landscaping with mulch. Specifically, I'd like to lay down a few yards of red mulch next to the driveway to build up some contour in the yard and some contrast to the pine and cedar much that's now in the shrubbery near the house and under the holly tree. I figure I'll edge the lawn at the same time to help provide some definition.
I also need to remind myself at some point soon (as in, before the summer hits) to get a couple of yards of pine chips (not mulch) delivered to spread around and under the kids' playset; give them something soft to land on underneath the swings, and something I don't have to mow or weed. As it stands now they've dug deep grooves in the topsoil underneath the playset from skidding their sneakers on the ground as they swing. The folks who we got the playset from advised us to lay down the chips, but I'm a master procrastinator and never took their advice. But, better late than never...