Clearing the Path to the Front Door
/One of the suggestions to prepare our house to sell quickly was to clear vegetation away from the front walkway...since it detracts from the entrance to the house. It was easy to see the point, so I started the project at 6:30 AM on what promised to be a very hot day. My first action was to cut an iris that was blooming very close to the sidewalk to enjoy inside. Most of what was leaning over onto the sidewalk were day lilies with a few iris…and milkweed.
I used the hedge trimmers as a first pass to get the leaves removed so I could see how much I would have to dig out. There were two trips with the wheelbarrow back to the brush pile with the leaves!
It will probably take a couple additional rounds of morning yard work to get the area the way I want it. I’ll post some pictures from the follow up rounds as they happen.
We also need a new welcome mat!
Round 2
The next day I cleared all the weeds from under the bushes and dug out a shovel-wide swath along the sidewalk. There were a lot of day lily buds crammed into the space. Overall – it was another 2 wheelbarrow loads back to the brush pile. We’ll put mulch down in that strip and the front should look a little less ‘wild.’
