Bye, bye ugly garden

One of my tasks the last few weeks has been to take down the ugly, and I mean UGLY, garden just off the back patio. What an eyesore. Perhaps at some point it looked decent but the previous owners had let it go to wrack and ruin. Overgrown plantings, weeds for days, unsightly and dilapidated fencing surrounding it. It was a mess. I couldn't fathom why anybody would want to mar the view to the backyard with that mess. You see it from the sun room, the living room, and the primary bedroom. All you want to see is a nice pristine expanse of yard. Instead it's blocked by junk. It had to go. But it wasn't easy. In addition to the tall wooden fence, there was wire and plastice fencing at the ground level with random old pieces of slate inserted here and there. I'm sure it was to prevent critters from getting to the vegetables and plants. The major tentpoles for the fencing were buried deep. And to add to the difficulty of pulling it up, the wire and plastic were stapled AND zip-tied to the wood. I had to use wire cutters to pull out all the staples and to cut the zips. NOT easy. Very tedious. After many hours of pulling, sweating, getting eaten by mosquitos, and backaches, i finally got it all out and it's MUCH better. And it will only improve as grass takes ove the bare plot. Here are a couple of pics of the heinous BEFORE:

And here is the AFTER: :)

One more after we had a yard crew cut the lawn...