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What have you guys been working on?
I've been prepping my yard for the spring. Cut back everything, got rid of the leaves and cleaned up the beds. Next I'm cutting back the two crepe myrtles in the back. Got one thinned and trimmed today, hitting the other one tomorrow then going for the tops
Pic rel because I let someone borrow my chainsaw

>> No.2008870

>>2008849
I am starting a garden. have a plot picked out and I have been tilling the soil with a shovel.

I have also been collecting fallen logs to burn and splitting logs to dry.

my lawn is pretty much dead in winter, so nothing new.

>> No.2008874

>>2008849
Why would you get rid of the leaves? That's free fertilizer once spring gets here.

>> No.2008875

>>2008874
It also makes your grass grow back patchy. Enjoy your mulch yard bro

>> No.2008900
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Gonna grow some of these babies

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>>2008849
in the planning stages of a backyard gazeboo/porch thing; wood framed, with trellis/net roof to weave some evergreen climbing plant through; saw some meme & liked the idea. I'd like to have a platform above for some more planters & somewhere to sit
but having a little sticking point. I'm fairly confident in making the frame & the platform itself, but not in attaching the the platform to the wall so that it can support the weight of a few people + some biggish pots & planters. Google is giving me house framing shit, so some pointers or google terms would be appreciated.

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>>2008849

Killing moles, cutting 6 inch diameter poison ivy vines with a chainsaw, building birdhouses and mulching.

I had the electric service dump 20 cubic meters of wood chips, I'm expecting another load tomorrow. I put 40lbs of fertilizer on it and it was melting the snow from last week. It steams when I turn it. Every day I get 30 to 100lbs of coffee grounds from Starbucks to add to the pile.

We cleared all the bushes and smaller hardwoods, built a fence, and planted 20 evergreens since new year. I'll rent a truck or trailer in March and buy 50 to a hundred shrubs and trees. My wife also wants 4 raised beds.

I've been spreading the wood chips across the yard in low spots and will till it all with my cultivator in April and plant grass.

My tree and grass yesterday.

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>>2008945
Wood chips on the dirt.

>> No.2008950

>>2008875
Not if you mulch them in by the middle of November or so with your mower. No patches here. Enjoy paying for fertilizer instead of basically cutting your grass one more time for the year.

>> No.2008969

>>2008950
Don't need it. Good soil here

>> No.2008973

>>2008969
Not with that attitude.