Landscape Repairs You Can Do On Your Own

Well, that's my that's my first go at it. Looks pretty good, huh? It's pretty. Pretty well flush there. Flush there. I wanted just a hair high there. Now. I haven't. I haven't really looked at it all the way. I wanted to look at it from this from this angle, and. You know, I'm looking right at that joint to see if. If I should lower that joint, I I don't I don't really think I should. I think I'm going to leave it right like that for the time being. And then I'll get ready to dig these two, and I think I'm going to call it for today. I I think I got. Quite a bit done and. You know, whenever I do anything, I I always like to take a look at my drip irrigation. These are these are the pipes that I'm going to redo after I get everything planted. But I see one, I see one right here. Look at that. You see that? How it's cut off. That tells me a rabbit has chopped that off because. It's not nice and smooth. It's got some teeth marks on it. And it's coming up. There used to be a bubbler on the end of that, so I've got I've got a little cap. Like this in the. In the garage, and I'll have to cut that off and put a little cap on there before. Before I go in, okay, because when the drip irrigation goes on. That's just going to pour out. And I know I didn't, I didn't dig, I didn't cut that off when I was doing that because I was real careful about it. I I happen to see it. See how far away it is, from there, anyways. Okay, so I'm halfway. I'm halfway home. I'm probably five eighths of the way home because that was a that was a big old nasty root, root system, wasn't it? All can you believe that? All of this stuff. Right here, was between here and there, probably about from here. About here was the major monstrosities of that. And see this one here. I don't think I'm going to have to move that. I have a feeling that that root. Uh, it's something here, or it's coming from this tree, and it's probably coming in. I'm guessing about right there. I'm hoping it's not too close to that. Hey, if it is, I'll have to dig. I'll have to dig this one up too, but I I believe I can. Take this one up, dig it there, and then remember I said this one was just a hair low, so that one I'm just going to lift up. And I might, and I might check, I might check once I lift that one up. I might check a little bit and snip off some of the, some of the straggler. Roots, kind of like these smaller roots, like this, are going to be under there. I just know it. Okay, so I'll I'll kind of do that. And then, I'll have to. I I know I've got to have some extra dirt. So, you know, hey, I got plenty of dirt in here that I'll have to shave off wherever I see a high spot or whatever. And and I'll lift this up, and that one, that one has to go down. In fact, I could take some dirt there and push it over there, whatever. Okay, I've got plenty of dirt to work with, and I'm glad I'm doing it. Before I've got the. Mm-hmm. The decomposed granite here, and what I'm calling decomposed granite, is the stuff that used to be there. And see, it's just this stuff here, okay. What it is is is little, little bits of granite that has been smashed up. And they call that D G. Uh, decomposed granite. Okay, all that stuff's going to go back in here, and when I when I get ready to do that, I'm just going to throw about an inch and a half. It usually it gets about three inches, and that was a three inch layer through here. Well, I'm going to put about an inch and a half on here. That way, I have enough to do an inch and a half over here after I get when I get this ready, and then I'm going to have to get some new decomposed granite, and I'll throw. Brand new decomposed granite on top of the old stuff, on top of the old stuff here. That way, I can recycle all of the decomposed granite that I had in here before. Hey, if I didn't do that, what what would I have done with all that decomposed granite? It was already flush about with the top of the mowing strip, so it would have been all in my way. Plus, I wouldn't have been able to get down to look at the wiring for the landscaping, for the the um. Uh, the drench, the trench where the uh, um. The drainage. Pipe was all the way along there for the downspouts. I wouldn't have been able to do that. I could see exactly where all the the drip irrigation pipes were and work with that. And then I kind of took my hammer and kind of dug around there and pulled up all kinds of roots, and there were all kinds of other. Bushes in here, for all those reasons, I I took all the decomposed granite out with this little shovel. Trust me, that's all I used, and this bucket I would shovel, three quarters of that bucketful, put it over there, one after another, probably four hundred, four hundred buckets, ah, maybe maybe two hundred fifty buckets, of there, and yes, I'm gonna have to do that when I get done. Hey, when you do things on your own, that's just stuff you're gonna have to do, and I don't mind doing it. I'm saving money every step of the way, and you can too. Okay, keep watching my videos to learn more. I think that's it for this time.