As Neil works on the house, I've been working on the yard. In May we brought in 15 yards of compost to amend our clay soil. That's the lovely dark brown above, on top of the not so lovely clay. First we tilled the clay soil. Next we brought in the compost and spread it from the conveyor on the truck. Much easier to do that than spreading it by shovel and wheel barrel. It cost us an extra $300 to have this company pick up the compost and spread it. Totally worth it.
Then we tilled the soil again to mix it all together. After all that, I brought in a couple loads of medium mulch to cover the soil. I will be doing my main planting in the fall, but want to stop the weeds from overtaking. Every place I had not put the mulch down over the winter, I had to pull out 1'-2' grass/weeds. So this time it will all be covered.
In preparation for our rain garden, we went rock shopping at Marenakos. I had done a trip back in February to scope it out. It's an amazing place. All kinds of rocks and hardscapes.
We rented a truck that could carry and dump the load. This is about 6.5 tons of rock. 3.5 tons of 1 man boulders and 3 tons of river rock.
Next posts will be about the rain garden.
