Minor Front Yard Conversion

The previous homeowner must have REALLY enjoyed small granite landscaping rock because it is tucked away here and there all over our yard. We planned and schemed and tried to figure out how to get rid of these little things with as little labor as possible. How does one relieve himself of unwanted landscape rock? (and don't say Craigslist)

Thankfully, as I mentioned before, these little rock of ages are in various landscaped areas in our yard. So we hauled them to our backyard 1wheel borrow at a time. We didn't keep track of how many loads we moved, but the area I'm standing in above is 200 SF and the rocks were 6" deep. That's almost 4 CY...a lot of rock!

Anyway, we thought it would be fun (ha!) to plant a small flower / vegetable garden in lieu of the dull, dry, and boring granite rock. So today we began by hand tilling our new garden spot.

Here's the black dirt that will replace the granite.

Eme is happily evening out the new black dirt.

Thankfully my dad came over to lend his expertise in manual labor, but more importantly planting. You know what they say, "You can take the boy out of the farm..."

In progress...

The finished product!

It doesn't necessarily look like it from this picture, but it was a lot of work. But we can't wait to taste fresh produce later this summer. Oh and, of course, the weeds will pull themselves, right? ;)