Martinez Hayes Garden Progress

We've begun the mayhem. The Martinez Hayes household is going to be digging for a while. Our development covenants committee has approved our garden bed plan, and we've gone to Lowe's and ordered our first pallet of bricks and 20+ bags of dirt. We have two days of Memorial Day Weekend to relax with neighbors before the brick and dirt are delivered.

Our garden plan has been on the back burner for over two years. I wanted to just go, but my husband, Dan, insisted on going through covenants. Of course they won't mind if we put raised beds around the base of our house! The houses are bland, it improves curb appeal, the houses in our section of the development get 5 lousy boxwood shrubs and one nasty Bradford Pear.

So, we've begun. I submitted a plan for only the raised beds, eliminating our other plans. It got rubber stamped and we're ready to start. We'll start in the back where we can practice how to best set it up before tearing through the sides of the yard. To be honest, we haven't even finalized whether it'll be 2 bricks high, or 3. Depends on how fast we tire of lugging around 17 pound bricks!

Oh my God, we're about to receive 192 bricks at 17 pounds each. What were we thinking?? My back aches at the thought of them.