Since moving in we have been working on the front yard trying to clear out the space for planting a vegie garden. There are a few steps to getting this done like clearing the concrete, plants, adding a water tank and bizarelly moving the front gates. We started out with a bit of a jungle:
Which we cleared so that our local tradie could come and clear the concrete:
Despite the appearance Peter didn't manage to do it all by sledgehammer and ended up using a jackhammer to get through the 4 inches of reinforced concrete. Eleri had told me it might be a tough and I think that was some of the best money we have invested since we got the house. At the end of the weekend we had a massive skip full of concrete, steel, woody plants and almost a wife:
Since then Peter has been back and moved the gates forward to the boundary in line with the rest of the fence. This allows us to get to the front yard without opening up the gates and also stops people walking off the street onto the vegie patch.
So now we are getting on with clearing the front yard and finding the storm water drain so that we can divert it into the water tank:
The drain wasn't in that hole, have to keep trying elsewhere:
Which we cleared so that our local tradie could come and clear the concrete:
Despite the appearance Peter didn't manage to do it all by sledgehammer and ended up using a jackhammer to get through the 4 inches of reinforced concrete. Eleri had told me it might be a tough and I think that was some of the best money we have invested since we got the house. At the end of the weekend we had a massive skip full of concrete, steel, woody plants and almost a wife:
Since then Peter has been back and moved the gates forward to the boundary in line with the rest of the fence. This allows us to get to the front yard without opening up the gates and also stops people walking off the street onto the vegie patch.
So now we are getting on with clearing the front yard and finding the storm water drain so that we can divert it into the water tank:
The drain wasn't in that hole, have to keep trying elsewhere:
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