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Consider Hiring Yard Maintenance for the Summer

While the average single parent is definitely on a budget, we also have time management issues to contend with. In the summer months, our time is often really stretched with work and household responsibilities and spending time with our children who are off school for the summer. Instead of spending your precious time trying to keep the grass mowed and the flowers watered, it might be time to consider hiring some temporary yard maintenance for the summer months. You may have never thought of yourself as the kind of person who would have “a gardener” but there is a difference … Continue reading →

Cleaning Up The Garden Path

To be led along the garden path is an old expression, but it has new meaning when you are responsible for maintaining that path and the view from all points leading to it. Here are some tips so you won’t stray from the straight and narrow as well as the crooked and the wide. Read on if you dare. Unwanted Growth One way to kill the weeds growing between your patio stones and to get away without jail time is to replace them with plants. Plant some attractive ground cover seeds between the walkway stones. As they increase, they will … Continue reading →

Yard and Garden: Family Yard Day

Okay, school will be out soon and it will be the perfect time to plan a family yard day. We do this every year. We have a very large yard (about an acre) and it is difficult to maintain over the winter. Due to generally mild winters, we have a rainy season instead of getting much snow, and the ground quickly becomes saturated and tends to stay that way. This keeps us from performing maintenance as often as we’d like to, and leads to a lot of work come spring. We also usually have a certain amount of storm damage … Continue reading →