May Long Weekend (or the unofficial Gardening-Weekend-in-Canada as I like to call it) has come and gone and my garden is in the ground!  This week was extremely busy as I hustled to get my garden in, mow and fertilize the lawn, and cut down the overgrown nuisance trees in the yard.

Thanks again to Nat of Simple Family Crazy Life for heading up the challenge.  Click here to see the other bloggers progress.

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While the largest chunk of my yard work is done, there’s still much to do!  Our fence-of-shame still needs fixing and I still have that side of the flower beds to weed through.  I want to order more mulch and add it around the flower beds so I don’t have to weed so much.

Here’s a little tour I did recently on Facebook:

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I’m seriously in love with my new vinyl raised beds in the front yard.  They look so good and make me smile every time I see them.  You can read more about my experience here.

I also can’t believe that I fit every single flower and vegetable that I wanted to plant into my garden space.  If you haven’t tried square foot gardening and you garden in a small space, you really need to give it a try.  I’ll be following up later in the year with how all my experiments with this technique turned out.

Wondering about the upside down tomato cages?  I’m starting a new garden space and I laid cardboard down in order to kill the grass.  Unfortunately, the tomato cages can’t pierce through that ground.  Wish me luck!

Even though my garden is nowhere near perfect, I’m in awe of the transformation over the last three years.  We started with a rundown mess of a yard, and are slowly but surely making it our own.

That’s it for this week!  Next week I hope to take some glamorous pictures of the yard and share the final results with you.

Have you ever conquered an overgrown mess of a yard?  Tell me all about it!  (Please, I need to feel like I’m not the only one!!)