the bodj
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Figured I’d throw up what I’ve been growing/attempting to make nice on the house. Right now I’ve been neglecting the plants, but here’s what I’ve got.
Stripped out the Bermuda from the front, filled, sprinkler system, and seeded fescue. Came in pretty well, except the far section that didn’t take and Bermuda grew back so I re-tilled and will reseed when it cools down a bit. Might just throw sod down there… the edge along the driveway is getting concrete steps, so the sprinklers aren’t hitting there, so not much grass for now.
The front slope was originally baby head/river rock stacked. Made for a good time with the rc crawler, but didn’t look good. Broke my back for a few days but it turned out nice.
The wife loves roses so we have a lot of them. I think the plants themselves are ugly but the flowers are cool to look at. She keeps cutting them back pretty heavily and they grow like crazy with random shoots. They just had a big bloom so there’s not too many flowers to look at now.
I think there’s 8 more on the other side of the driveway but they’re hard to get a picture of since they’re up above a retaining wall.
When we purchased the house it came with the garden, garden shed, patio cover, dirt, and avocado tree that was dwindling. Three years later and we have sprinklers, fescue, trex deck, garden has some produce (I haven’t really planted anything this year), we planted all of the fruit trees, cut into the hillside, and added a second shed for the dirtbikes/bikes.
Along the left edge are the pumpkin plants. The middle tall stalky thing is a the base of a chunk of celery from the grocery store. It took off and I use it for food for our rabbit. Along the back wall is a grape vine, dwarf lemon, and dwarf peach. On the hillside you can see the fig tree
Ignore the many weeds, but these plants are a mix of potatoes and green peppers
Avocado and deck. The view out the back is great. Grass is patchy from dog piss.
I love the smell of jasmine, so I put three plants here to grow and cover the front of the patio cover.
Stripped out the Bermuda from the front, filled, sprinkler system, and seeded fescue. Came in pretty well, except the far section that didn’t take and Bermuda grew back so I re-tilled and will reseed when it cools down a bit. Might just throw sod down there… the edge along the driveway is getting concrete steps, so the sprinklers aren’t hitting there, so not much grass for now.
The front slope was originally baby head/river rock stacked. Made for a good time with the rc crawler, but didn’t look good. Broke my back for a few days but it turned out nice.
The wife loves roses so we have a lot of them. I think the plants themselves are ugly but the flowers are cool to look at. She keeps cutting them back pretty heavily and they grow like crazy with random shoots. They just had a big bloom so there’s not too many flowers to look at now.
I think there’s 8 more on the other side of the driveway but they’re hard to get a picture of since they’re up above a retaining wall.
When we purchased the house it came with the garden, garden shed, patio cover, dirt, and avocado tree that was dwindling. Three years later and we have sprinklers, fescue, trex deck, garden has some produce (I haven’t really planted anything this year), we planted all of the fruit trees, cut into the hillside, and added a second shed for the dirtbikes/bikes.
Along the left edge are the pumpkin plants. The middle tall stalky thing is a the base of a chunk of celery from the grocery store. It took off and I use it for food for our rabbit. Along the back wall is a grape vine, dwarf lemon, and dwarf peach. On the hillside you can see the fig tree
Ignore the many weeds, but these plants are a mix of potatoes and green peppers
Avocado and deck. The view out the back is great. Grass is patchy from dog piss.
I love the smell of jasmine, so I put three plants here to grow and cover the front of the patio cover.
