the recycled garden - rocks, stones, and bricks
When we bought our house in 1992, the yard was a wasteland. Literally. It was awful. If it hadn't been for the great neighborhood, and the big family room with 2 sets of french doors, a fireplace and a 1953 Brunswick regulation pool table that came with the place, we would have passed. The yard needed a lot of work. There were no plants except for several large oak trees and a camphor tree in the front. There was no grass, just sandy dirt and a big burn pile in the back. One of the first things we wanted to do was create beds. A dear neighbor gave us a whole pallet of bricks. She and her soon-to-be-ex had purchased them, but didn't use them before they had to divide property and sell their house. Pam just wanted them out of her yard. We dug trenches and laid the bricks to edge beds, setting the tops level with the ground so that mowing would be easy. From Garden Thank you, Pam, for the bricks. Neighbors Bob and Donna had a sto...