I called the landscaper and scheduled our backyard to be redone on June 3rd. Exciting!!

They’re going to:
1) Remove all the random pieces of cement.
2) Put in a catch basin where the water is pooling to collect it.
3) Put in an underground pipe that will run the water to the back of the property (where there is a stream).
4) Connect the two downspouts from the back of the house to the underground pipe.
5) Remove the cinderblock retaining wall and rebuild it with landscape timbers.
6) Grade the entire backyard and prep it for grass.

We’ll plant the grass in the fall – I think Sept. 15th is the earliest you can plant fescue grass here in Georgia. I hope we don’t see any ill effects of having it “prepped” three months before we actually do it, but we wanted to get it done now to help with the mosquitoes that are bad this time of year. (They’re going to clear out the brush from the yard, which is where the mosquitoes are hiding.)

So in the next month, we need to remove all the non-organic debris from the yard. We also need to make sure the downspouts are secured properly – we have gutter issues (will be fixed when we reroof the house – apparently there aren’t proper places to attach the gutters??? or something like that). I’m excited to get this project done!

I am not sure when we’ll do this, but I also have hopes of painting the back of the house and also the shed to match. It will be nice to have a backyard that doesn’t look so trashy!!