The Garden

I have been working in my backyard for about 3 years now.  It started as an overgrown wasteland of overgrown bushes, debris, dirt, english ivy, large poplar trees and a ditch.  The ditch I found out is actually a raging whitewater body of water when it rains hard but then dries up and needs to be kept clean of debris until the next rain.  If it is not and backs up then things start to float.  

I have come up with quit an extensive plan for the back yard and over the three year period have improved it a great deal with some of the learned skills I needed to acquire to build the different things I have incorporated into the backyard.  They range from a stream and pond with a stone front to the pond so you can sit at the edge to a Japanese Garden and now I am in the middle of creating a teahouse to fit into the layout of the garden.   

I will share with you the details of the pond building in the first part of this blog.  

Leave any comments about things you might like me to touch on.  

The Beginning

I have spent the better part of my adult life in the lawn care and landscaping business and throughout that time have taught myself a good deal of skills associated with the landscape/hardscape and construction business.  As I needed to learn a new skill for a particular job or interest I had I searched out the web and other sources to get answers for my questions and techniques of the skill set I needed to achieve the particular task I was taking on.  In most cases I found limited or incomplete lessons on what I needed to do.  I have decided to compose as much as possible the more complete lessons that I have learned along the way based on my utilization of the materials and sources I found to at least point me in the right direction and then the "on the job training" I experienced and inevitably honed to complete the particular task I was trying to accomplish.  I hope this is of help and assistance to you.  If there is anything I did not cover or you would like me to include please let me know.