Enhance your outdoor living space by adding some beautiful landscaping.
A little landscaping can go a long way towardmaking your yard an even more pleasant placeto relax and entertain.
Before long, you’ll be able to sit back and enjoy the beautiful haven you’ve created.
Credit: Laurie Black
Start by picking out a fewlarger shrubsor evensmall treesyou’d like to include.
Then choose smaller perennials and ornamental grasses to fill in around them.
check that that the plants you choose will grow in yourHardiness Zoneand inthe amount of sunlightyour yard receives.
Use landscape paint to mark where the border will go.
Dig Up Existing Turf
It’s time for a workout.
There’s no need to dig deeply.
This will help loosen the grass enough to allow you to peel the sod back andexpose the soil underneath.
Next, working in small sections, cut pieces of plastic or metal edging to fit your bed.
Place the edging in the trench, and when needed, join the pieces with connector tube.
Secure the edging in place by refilling the trench with soil.
Place the landscaping fabric so the entire space is filled, then cut it to fit within your borders.
Insert pins along the outer edges of the fabric to hold it in place.
Determine Final Layout for Plants
Now you’re free to see the finished project coming together.
Then dig holes in the soil and add each plant.
Fill in the gaps around the plants with the soil you dug out making the hole.
Once you’ve got the whole garden planted, water each plant thoroughly to settle it in.
see to it tospread the mulchso that once you’re finished, no landscape fabric shows through.
Smooth the layer to be as even as possible andkeep it away from plant stems.
