Demo Day

I'm so excited! Yesterday was Demo Day here at the Wright (urban) Homestead. We removed 2 sheds (well one was an accident, but it works out for the best). One was...well...it was crappy and I didn't like it when we bought the house and wanted it gone. Well, they are down and we are waiting for the dumpster to get here this morning so we can get the trash out of the yard. Have I mentioned that I'm really excited about this??? Why, you ask? Well, it is to make way for my raised gardens! There is one concrete slab from one of the sheds, but I've figured out how to incorporate that into my garden. We are going to get a small pergola and put a hanging swing under it so that I can sit out there by the swingset while the kiddos play. Any suggestions for what plants to have growing up the trellis?

Before Demo (you can kinda see how the shed on the left is crappy)

Mid-point of Demo (before dumpster)

(Please don't mind the over grown weeds/grass along the fence. We also couldn't get behind the sheds to take the privacy fence all the way. Now we can!)

Don't fret, we are going to put a new storage shed up. We're just moving it to the part of the yard that we really don't use (our yard is shaped weird). We are going to be putting it between the tree and the bush/shrub/small tree. This also blocks our rude nosey neighbor from seeing in our yard (we're also going to be putting up a full privacy fence around the yard to keep them from seeing in and to keep from seeing the two overgrown/abandoned/shitty looking yards around us (hopefully a saleing point when we go to sale).

Ok, back to the garden plans. In the demo picture, I am going to put up two 8ft x 8ft raised garden beds surrounded by gravel and possibly a decorative fence to match around the patio. I am going to have my small compost bin moved over there as well as possibly a small deck box to keep my small garden tools handy. I am going to put down landscaping fabic and rocks around the porch and down the side of the house (to keep from having to weed and keep it looking nicer). I am going to plant a dwarf, self-pollinating apple tree at the corner of the porch and have berry bushes as my "landscaping" around the porch. Shade plants for down the side of the house because it gets only morning light. I can't wait to get the garden started so it will be ready in the spring!