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Speaking of weeds... that's a lot of exposed dirt. Is one of you a gardener? Someone's going to be spending a lot of time to keep up the appearance of your yard.
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There's geotextile fabric underneath the compacted sand, and the sand is polymeric. The combination of the two is supposed to make weeds pretty rare, but they'll still happen.Originally posted by Dinner View PostThat's a lot of flowers on that crabapple tree. The bees will no doubt thank you.
BTW I have paving stones in my patio too but I'm always spraying round up to kill the weeds which pop up between the paving stones then hand pulling the dead weeds out. Is there some trick the pavers use to stop this or is it, as I suspect, just the required maintenance? I have sand between the paving stones and it looks like you do too."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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The only actual exposed dirt is in a small section of the yard we've reserved for a vegetable garden.Originally posted by notyoueither View Post
The rest has a large amount of mulch on top, which will help.
And none of us were gardeners until now because we've not had a yard until now. We're both interested in giving it a go.
If that fails, that's what my retired parents are for.
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I see a lot of dark area with flowers and such growing.
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Yes, that's the mulched area."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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how about a photo of the happy couple in their garden?Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
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He's out of town on business right now, and I know better than to post pics of SO's on this site.
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oh, why?Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
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We've been together 10 years (as of last Friday). I think he's out by now.
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The result of this is very nice. I like the stone work and retaining walls, but just out of curiosity, how much was the bill?We're sorry, the voices in my head are not available at this time. Please try back again soon.Comment
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Ahh, ok, I have no geotextile fabric underneath as I did it myself using one of the Home Depot's how to guides. I had been thinking about just pouring a concrete patio to get out of the weeding but maybe redoing it correctly with geotextile is a better option. I kind of don't like the paving stones I picked out in 2004 any way so maybe it is time to redo it.Originally posted by Asher View PostTry http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Just south of $40K.
It also includes stuff not very obvious from the pictures - 6 zone irrigation system (with rain sensor), uplighting (tree) and downlighting (path), and downspout modification (water drains all the way to the property line through and underground tube rather than on the paving stones). The materials alone are really pricey (like the rundlestone at the side of the house).
I got six quotes for the design, all of the others were in the $50-60K range. This guy is doing it much cheaper than the others as he wants to use it to get more business in the neighbourhood (vast majority of people have no landscaping). I agreed to let him keep his sign out front & out back for one year for the $15K discount. I've also gone around to yards each of them did, this guy is the highest quality. He takes a lot of pride in his work and doesn't cut corners, and it showed on the yards he did. Little things like the fencing - other guys had large gaps near the fencepost where a whole board wouldn't fit. This contractor cuts a narrow board to put in there so the spacing is always even."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Did you use polymeric sand or envirosand?Originally posted by Dinner View Post
Regular sand is awful for weeds also."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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It was regular sand which I bought from Home Depot.
It needs to be redone and probably by someone who has experience rather than a DIY job.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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