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Backyard Problem Solver - Inexpensive Hints & Tips
Whether you are a renter or a home owner on a limited budget, there are many inexpensive ways for you to become your own backyard problem solver. The best potential backyard problem solving approach is preventative maintenance. Another backyard problem solving approach is simple maintenance and minor adjustments. One such approach was addressed in depth in my article "Backyard Problem Solver...Revitalize a Flat Boring Landscape by Berming".
From personal experience, we know that it is often hard to come up with the money needed to do major landscaping overhauls. I'd like to share some simple backyard problem solving techniques, hints, suggestions that work for us that may help you. So grab a cup of Java and consider these ideas:
Backyard problem solving preventative suggestions: Slope your soil beds away from your foundation to keep water from draining toward your house. Keep your vent boxes clean of leaves, debris, and soil. In winter wrap your sprinkler junction with insulation or a heavy blanket to avoid frozen lines. Drain your hoses for the same reason. These are all simple basics we sometimes forget.
Backyard problem solving for weeds: Laying down a black landscape cloth rather than black plastic is better for your soil and achieves the same result of controlling weeds. Black cloth is inexpensive, easier to use and lay, and doesn't poison your soil. The soil breathes through the cloth; it is smothered by black plastic. You just cut the cloth where you want to plant.
A heavy layer of compost or bark mulch keeps your plants roots cool, conserves water, and also controls weeds. Mulching adds beauty in color and texture to your flower beds and gardens. Mulching also has the added advantage of providing rich nutrients and soil building essentials to your soil as it breaks down.
Mulching enriches the soil which feeds your trees, shrubs, and flowers. Through this process your plants are stronger, hardier, and disease resistant. They thrive, grow, and multiply, thus adding beauty to your yard. You save money, time, and frustration in caring for and replacing weak plants. You conserve water which is good for our ecosystem, you save money on your water bill.
Another good back backyard problem solving maintenance technique is to repair or replace leaky hoses and leaky washers in spigots. Water conservation and the cost of watering is a major concern for each of us. Rainwater barrels are especially good too, decorative and providing nutrient rich fresh rainwater for free to your plants. If you don't have rain gutters, you can get those wonderful long chains that direct the water down from your roof into your flower or garden beds.
Another backyard problem solver: If you have a brick or flagstone walk, they move and sink occasionally. You can easily with a little labor, a pry bar or a long screwdriver lift and reset these stones or bricks to level again by prying them up, resetting the level with a leveling tool or even a two by four length. Lift the stone, place additional sand underneath, check the level.
Add more sand as needed to create a sound level and reset stone. Take a rubber mallet of decent size and pound the stone back in place. Rain if available will do the rest or sprinkle with water when you are watering to reset. Go to the next low stone and repeat the process. The result, even pretty patio or walkway restored.
Take the time to power wash or clean your sidewalks and foundations. Touch up or repaint those dreary patio furnishings and accents. The cost is little, the effort not too much to quickly revitalize old or worn patio yard décor. Linseed on wood is an excellent choice for revitalizing wood. We will address it in depth in another backyard problem solving article.
These are a few of the backyard problem solving techniques we recommend. We'll address adding some features and other backyard problem solving techniques in other articles and you can visit us at LandscapeCentral.net.
© Randeen Cummings Nelson
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
The Wonderful World of Trellises
It is so much fun to talk to people about their yards and what they like, what they do not like and how they view the overall landscaping scheme. No one has ever said that they are perfectly satisfied with their yard and do not want to another a thing. There is always something they would like to change, add to or eliminate.
Some people would love to tear up the entire yard and start over! However, for most of us, that is way more difficult and expensive than we can afford. So what can the average homeowner do to help your yard along without a great deal of expense? One of my favorite things to use in a yard and garden are trellises.
What I like about trellises is how different they are as well as the fact that many come in different sizes. This allows you to use the same shape of a garden trellis but in different sizes around the yard. Let us explore these two approaches a little more in-depth.
Some people have a themed yard while others have what I call, niche yards; yards that have several specific areas for different functions. Most themed yards are symmetrical in design and thought. With this type of yard it makes since to choose a style or type of trellis that comes in several different sizes and use this size difference to set off your flowerbeds or gardens.
You can also choose several types that go together, yet are not the same, to use in tandem. Most of these trellises are easily moved around so you can place them where you think they look the best and then plant your vines and blooms around their positions. If you do not like where they are move them before you plant. A lot of the time you can tell when people put up trellises to appease a plant by looking at where the trellis has been placed.
It just does not look good.
For those yards that have small niche areas, you have the advantage of using a plethora of trellises in many different ways throughout each space. Most people think of trellises being large but they come in so many sizes and shapes you can place them in flowerpots and planters to covering entire walls! If you want to use a trellis somewhere, you can.
A trellis can be freestanding, wall mounted, spiraled, large, small, made of vinyl, cedar, wrought iron or aluminum. They can have hooks for hanging baskets, bird feeders or birdhouses and come in simple crisscross designs to fancy curves, hearts and leaves. You can get a trellis in black, white, green or natural and can use them on a patio, in a garden, flowerpot or planter. Trellises can also be used in greenhouses for vegetables or growing vines of all kinds, large and small.
There is also trellis and lattice fences that love to host the many climbing vines you will find in a yard. This is a good way to make use of a fence that surrounds a garden. A good garden trellis will run you from .00 to .00 each for the smaller ones and go up to around 0.00 each for the larger decorative choices. Not much to pay at all to change the way your yard looks.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Backyard Problem Solver - Revitalize Your Flat Boring Landscape
Backyard problem solver for a flat uninteresting yard: Tip: One way to quickly and to pretty inexpensively, revitalize that flat yard of yours is to create berms. A berm is what landscapers create to add height and a variety of levels to a yard's design. To create a berm, soil is piled, domed, gently sloped to create visual interest with special planting areas becoming highlights of your yard.
When we purchased our new home, we had the same backyard problem to solve. There was a decent sized concrete patio and a postage stamp size strip between the fence and lawn, and grass. Utterly boring.
The lily bulbs I planted in the spring looked like lonely abandoned solders marching along the fence in that thin strip. Nothing to accent them, just stuck there, a big backyard problem to solve for my visual senses.
Enter the backyard problem solvers...us. Last fall we enlarged that ugly thin flat strip between the fence and the lawn. We widened the strip substantially, allowing room for something to grow. We took good top soil from a pond we were digging, added enriched composted soil, sand, and built raised soil berms.
On the long part of the back fence, the berm has some height, gently domed with room for large and small shrubs and flowers. We've left plenty of room between the fence and future plantings for drainage and fence preservation. Putting soil up on the fence will rot it quickly.
Another backyard problem solver hint here: If you have your planting beds planted right up to and covering part of your wood fence, it creates a moist wick that draws water into the wood. The wood stays wet and rots.
Our house is on a rocky stream bed so we use the available rocks to create drainage beneath the wood fence. We also set a row of rock just in front of the fence to hold the soil from touching the fence. A big expensive potential backyard problem solved, prevented.
To continue with our berming project, we left the bed in front of the house flat by the patio and front room window and then gently sloped to a higher domed height along the back part of the house. The flat area by the house will be perfect for my future prize rose garden. The raised berm along the rest of the house will host a profusion of low shrubs, flowers, and a couple of climbing trellises.
Our backyard problem solved: a flat ho-hum landscape is quickly ready to plant. Soon the colors, textures, scents of growing green, of exciting colors will refresh, delight, and tantalize the senses of our family and friends.
You can even create a bermed planting area along a fence. You can create a berm in an expanse of lawn to add interest. You can soften and stimulate a harsh flat expense into a rolling landscape. A load or three of rich soil and a load or two of sand combined with some hard work will inexpensively reward your efforts for you and your family.
By using this backyard problem solver idea, you will increase the visual and very probably the monetary value of your home. Visual sells. We at Landscaping Central hope you have fun being your own backyard problem solver.
© Randeen Cummings Nelson
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