Weeds Be Gone!

While I have been furiously working on our veggie garden and trees in the backyard, I am afraid that the only attention that I have given our frontyard was the occasional mowing.  The problem with this neglect was it gave the weeds plenty of time to take root and take over everything.  In fact,  a new weed took over the one front flower bed and started on the other.  I think it was Creeping Charlie but being new to this blogging thing I forgot to take before pictures.  Anyways, I had a few main goals for Saturday.

1.  Weed the beds of anything looking not like a flower.

2.  Dig out the section that the neighbor cats have been using as a litter box.

3.  Divide and transplant the Hostas.

4.  Spread the leftover bags of compost to fill in low spots of dirt removed in cleanup.

What I thought was going to be an hour quickly turned into three hours as we were throwing tons of weeds, dirt, and other stuff in the back of the truck.  However, the hard work paid off (well as long as the hostas and monkey grass survives the transplant) as you can see from the pictures.  I even like how the compost looks like fine mulch.  It was exhausting but hopefully it will be easy maintenance for a little while.

This one was covered by the creeping charlie!  It was bad.

Our pretty hydrangea!

Hopefully this Hosta will keep the cats from their favorite potty place.