Yard planning

I really want to expand my gardens to include just about the whole yard. I have my eye on some easy-to-install fencing at a national chain lumber store. It's not terribly expensive, either. I haven't measured to see how much I'll need, but having the front fenced would add to the looks and make it easier to let my little dog out.

Anyway, I have all these ideas floating around in my head. Make the front look very much like a cottage garden, like the one I saw when I was at the grape festival. That one was partly right out their back door, and because the yard sloped steeply, they continued it in sections further down the hill. My front is pretty flat, but the back has all kinds of potential for extending the yard and putting in grape vines and fruit trees in steppes. If the front could be done the way I have in mind, it would eliminate the need for mowing most of it!

It will take quite a bit of time to accomplish it, and cooler weather than we've had of late, but I think if I keep plugging away at it I can do it.

I'd like to have a space dedicated to wild flowers in the front, along with veggie and herb beds, flowers mixed in with those, and walkways in between the beds. I could possibly use bark or shavings to lay out the walkways. Stones would be nice but I don't think I'm "man" enough to haul those in and put them in place.

Honestly, if I could swing a loan, I'd try to buy this little house and the patch of land it sits on so I could know for sure my work wouldn't be in vain.

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