What To Do With Our Sidewalk Strip?
Okay, so I'm waaaaaay behind on updating the blog...wow so much has happened...where to start...
Since I've managed to screw up my back again I'll not be doing any manual labor for a couple of days soo....
Help Us Do Something Useful With Our Sidewalk Strip.
The picture below it the only one I could find that shows the ugly, ugly sidewalk strip in front
our house.
The PO apparently just dumped the leftover concrete there when he did the foundation.
It was ugly, cracked and weed choked.
I decided that since I needed to do a dump run I would create as much crap as possible to fill the borrowed truck.
Of course with no pics, but I broke up all the concrete and removed it along with a bunch of dirt.
The sidewalk area now looks like this.
The red arrows are where the concrete used to be.
Wow, now we have a lot more room out front for plants and what not.
One immediate issue we have is how to get the drip watering to the other parts of the new planting beds. I need to tunnel under the sidewalk to run lines I guess?
Anybody have any ideas on how best to do this?
Oak tree!!!
In a nice bit of synchronicity my neighbor has a good sized oak tree that he doesn't want anymore.
Well, he still wants it but its growing too close to his foundation and needs to remove it before it
starts to cause damage.
Picture of Neighbors Oak tree from our Bathroom
That's a 6' high fence and the tree is probably 3' above that.
What we would really, really, love to do is move this tree to our sidewalk strip nearest the driveway.
The tree has kinda a cool crook in it that we could line up with the strip.
We have no idea how to go about doing this in a way that will maximize the chances of the tree surviving...
Does anybody have any ideas on how to best go about transplanting this tree?
Our only idea so far is to wait until November so it won't get trampled on Halloween.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Since I've managed to screw up my back again I'll not be doing any manual labor for a couple of days soo....
Help Us Do Something Useful With Our Sidewalk Strip.
The picture below it the only one I could find that shows the ugly, ugly sidewalk strip in front
our house.
It was ugly, cracked and weed choked.
I decided that since I needed to do a dump run I would create as much crap as possible to fill the borrowed truck.
Of course with no pics, but I broke up all the concrete and removed it along with a bunch of dirt.
The sidewalk area now looks like this.
Wow, now we have a lot more room out front for plants and what not.
One immediate issue we have is how to get the drip watering to the other parts of the new planting beds. I need to tunnel under the sidewalk to run lines I guess?
Anybody have any ideas on how best to do this?
Oak tree!!!
In a nice bit of synchronicity my neighbor has a good sized oak tree that he doesn't want anymore.
Well, he still wants it but its growing too close to his foundation and needs to remove it before it
starts to cause damage.
Picture of Neighbors Oak tree from our Bathroom
What we would really, really, love to do is move this tree to our sidewalk strip nearest the driveway.
The tree has kinda a cool crook in it that we could line up with the strip.
We have no idea how to go about doing this in a way that will maximize the chances of the tree surviving...
Does anybody have any ideas on how to best go about transplanting this tree?
Our only idea so far is to wait until November so it won't get trampled on Halloween.
Any help would be much appreciated.
