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Anders increased the comfort level in his home and received $2,200 for completing home efficiency upgrades.

Truck lettering done and new shirts have arrived! Special thanks to Ntensity Customs for the embroidered shirts and KKP for the truck lettering. Couldn't ask for better service!

BACKYARD LANDSCAPING TIPS! By Confessions of a serial DIYer The best way to create a plan for your landscape is to draw it out on graph paper. Draw the outli...ne of your home. This will require some measuring. Each square on your paper = one square foot of space. Then draw the outline of your outdoor space. You may want to make copies now so you’ll have a clean sketch to go back to. IT IS IMPORTANT TO GET YOUR DRAWING AS CLOSE TO SCALE AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE YOU WILL USE THIS DRAWING TO DETERMINE SPACING FOR YOUR PLANTS LATER. . Add any bushes or trees that will be staying as well as any hard surfaces such as paths, driveway, etc. Now play with it. Pencil in different ideas. Don’t like it? Erase it and start again. I changed my mind several times on paper before I came up with a layout I liked. Even if you are redoing a small area. Draw it out. This will help you visualize the finished space. Here is the front border garden as I drew it out on paper: . Don’t be afraid to go big! No area should be less than four feet in diameter. I am barely pushing it along the property line there. I would have made that wider if I could, but I have such a small patch of grass as it is. If it’s too narrow, your garden won’t have any depth. If you are planning on adding any hard scape, pathways, etc such as our flagstone pathway below, that should be done first! Once I determined how I was going to lay out my new landscape, I used flour to mark where my planting beds would go. This made it easy to change it if needed. *Don’t forget to call the underground utility company(s) to come out and mark their lines before you dig! (Thanks, Jackie!) Then I used a flat shovel and created a trench all around the outside edge. In this picture, you can see the initial cuts. I actually went back a second time to make them twice as wide as you see here. You can see I followed my original drawing, but I went back later and enlarged the area by the street to balance it better with the rest of the layout. . READ MORE AT https://www.confessionsofaserialdiyer.com/how-to-create-a-/ @ Sarnia, Ontario