Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Spring Gardening Spruce Up

Growin up in California, sadly didn't prepare me for the gardening knowledge I would need as an adult living in Texas. We always lived in apartments where the landscaping and gardening was always taken care of. I was never instilled with the grueling pain of pulling weeds, mowing lawns or being given yard work type chores as a child.  Fast forward to today, and I'm left with very little to no gardening skills.

It's embarrassing, we've been on our HOA's naughty list  and we keep receiving nasty-gram letters letting us know we need to clear out the weeds in our flower bed, as well as in our grass, and we also need to re-mulch our entire flower bed. It's spring time, so everyone is trying to repair their yards from the mild winter we experienced here. I'll admit I've been putting off any sort of yard work just because I start to feel overwhelmed and I dont know what to do. Weed pulling is one of my least favorite things to do, and last year my husband broke our lawn mower. Dont ask me how he did it, but I'm starting to think he might have been secretly trying to get out being our official lawn mower. So We hired a landscaping company to help us get our yard back in shape since my husband and I don't know the least bit about how to get out yard looking presentable again. Our landscaping company is great, they've been helping get the weeds, clovers and fire ant hills under control in our yard. Our grass is starting to look so much healthier and better compared to last year.

In efforts to help spruce things up, I took it upon myself to buy some mulch, and a few flowers just to get the ball rolling on our yard make over. It will be a slow process to get make over our yard since there's much to be done, but  I wanted to make as big of an impact on my tiny budget to hopefully appease our homeowners association for the time being.