Backyard In Progress

We've been working a little bit every day on the backyard, and it's coming along really well.  Here are some pictures:

If you remember, this is what it looked like before we did anything.

Another before picture

And the insanely over-grown vegetable garden.  Yes, believe it or not, there are vegetables are in there.

Removing rocks and bits of trash, raking through the dirt to try to loosen it up.

Sweeping near the door

Some nice fresh looking dirt was hiding under the rocks and garbage.

Before weeding...

After weeding!

Some cool chairs we found on the curb, just need a little paint job.  Plus some fresh oregano from our garden!

Starting to clear out the overgrown ivy and weeds along the fence and the yard area

We found this guy buried in the mass of vines at the back of the yard.

A candle holder that was buried in the garden, later we found the rest of the set.

What else did we find in the garden?  This eggplant!

And these tomatoes

There is also basil, celery, oregano, chives, and what I think are cucumbers.

The other half of the garden cleared out

Look how nice it looks!  We haven't even planted anything yet, just weeded.  I'm really impressed these plants were able to pull through with all the crap that was strangling them in there.

Today Steve ripped up the disgusting black plastic that was covering our half of the yard. Yay!

This is what it looked like until...

he pulled up all the crap, raked through the compacted soil, and voila!

Plus he added this little mini wall of rocks and a little stepping path to the tomato plants.

It looks like a totally different yard!

So that's it!  Well, for now.  We had a lot more work to do, but it's really coming along and I'm pretty proud of the progress we've made in only a few days.