Where did all that mulch go?

Here are some before and after shots of the backyard with and without the 40 yards of mulch we moved.

Note the difference in shadows on the ground, too. It was a long day. Next up? Shrubs of course!

Did someone say mulch?

Oh what a weekend... It's Spring in the good ol' Midwest and that means it's time for the annual mulch festival. For purposes of this post, festival equals having mulch dumped in your driveway so you can cart it to where it needs to be in the yard. Fun, huh?

With the relatively recent addition of our fence to the yard, we are putting in a lot of new planting beds around it. Of course, planting beds require mulch - lots of it. Perhaps insane amounts of mulch. Does 40 yards sound like too much? Well, it wasn't! Oh, by the way, what you see at right is only 20 yards - half of what we moved.

Between the hours of 7:30am and 4:30pm, we were mulch-moving-maniacs. But it's done and we even beat the rain that came the next day. Ah yes, good times for Broke Homeowners.

The pictures at the right illustrate the driveway in the various stages of the mulch festival: before the mulch was delivered, after the mulch was delivered, and after the mulch was properly distributed.