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- I hate cutting grass and seeing energy go to waste
- Originally planned to explain how the front yard will become a food forest
- How I have been planning to increase gardening activities to the front yard
- Read and watched too much information motivating me to turn the front lawn into a garden
- Even Martha Stewart agrees it’s the right thing to do
- But then I had to think more about my neighbors
- Doing the right is hard work! Literally!
- But you can still consider it
- What we’ll be doing in the back yard instead and how exciting it will be to have a berry covered back yard
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I have the same issues. I’m planning to create some very large beds in front yard by connecting some trees via beds (take out the Bermuda grass/monoculture) & plant perennials in the beds. I want as little grass as aesthetically possible! I’m also going to enlarge my front beds that surround the house & companion plant there. I have a sloping backyard that meets a stone retaining wall that surrounds the backyard (60-100′ feet from back deck which is 50″ off the ground, I plan to put pavers in & put IBC totes under deck for rain harvesting). I plan to put swales in the sloping area in very back & plant fruit trees on woody berms (hugel) from the swale creation and companion plant there too. On the small backyard (between deck & retaining wall) & side yard that stays very damp, I’m going to build rain garden (with food perennials & beneficial plants). Wish me success (& a strong back :-). Hamp
All the luck to you buddy. I just built another new hugel bed in the back. I had a patch of just grass and figured it was time to stop cutting it. My back is fine now but Sunday and Monday were rough.