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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Jazzing Things Up

I've never been really big on yard work, when I was younger I remember summers of having to pick up sticky apricots from between blades of grass...there were a lot of apricots.  I would get tired and bored and eventually just end up going and laying under the swamp cooler in the hallway. I guess things are different when it's your own house (well at lease house by renting agreement) because all I want to do now that the grass is green is make our yard the cutest on the street.  Ky and I live in an older house on a cute little street in Sugarhouse, there are two little strips of grass in the front yard and a flower bed (which I have yet to get my hands on) and the most adorable little back yard you have ever seen.  We moved into this house on New Years Eve and since then the backyard has been pretty much covered with snow until one day I looked into the backyard and realized how great it could be. 

A couple summers ago my parents built themselves some grow boxes and I absolutely loved the idea, I love veggies and fruits and anything that doesn't require me to cook. I can do a lot of things, but cooking is not one of them. So I decided I wanted a grow box of my very own, and Kyle was nice enough to agree to make me one.  Off to Home Depot we went...
Why yes, that is a picture of me trying to drive our cart with a large plank of wood hanging out of it, and yes I did almost hit several people while navigating through the store, did I think to maybe find a more adequate lumber cart?...of course not.
I picked out the wood that I wanted as well as seeds (jalepenos, squash, peas, and cucumbers), potting soil, and spray paint...

I couldn't just leave my grow box plain and boring, especially not after seeing this color of spray paint...everything a girl could hope for? but of course.

We got everything back to the house and the real work began, there was a lot of overgrown in the two flower beds lining the fence that had to be cleared out, and of course there were the rose bushes..Roses aren't really my favorite flower and pruning these eight foot tall bad boys really didn't give them much more hope in my book. While clearing things away we found some great small decorative iron fences that reminded me of something that would be in an old pet cemetary, we were able to put those around the rose bushes. The far right back corner of the yard kind of worked out perfectly for our grow box and the blue color looks pretty awesome.  We added a few extra touches, like a door we found in the garage and a large wood frame that we painted and attached to the fence. Because we are renting we can't do everything that I would love to do to that backyard (like totally remove those darn rose bushes) but we did what we could and I'm happy with it, here is the before and after...

There are still a lot of things I would like to do with it, like plant some more flowers and of course get my grow box started, I have this jazzy idea of just using old junk as flower pots and putting is all over the front and back yard, I also have this great idea that involves old window screens, but I guess you will just have to find out :) Promise to keep you updated!

Steph

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