Last Thursday I started on my biggest project outside, digging in the backyard between the house and the pool. There is at least a twelve inch difference between the pool deck and the top of the basement wall, with the land all sloped towards the house. We have gotten water in the basement once this year and hopefully I will be able to prevent it from happening again by digging out the basement wall and regrading the area.
I managed to tear up almost a third of the area that I need to, before the rains yesterday and today stopped me. The single plant in the bed at this point is a rose bush that had been growing up against the house in front of the phone junction box. I am hoping that it survives the transplant, since it had lovely red flowers last year, most of the root system was directed away from the house though so I am not certain that I will be successful with that one.
The amount of dirt I had to remove to get below the top of the cement block was incredible, and to tell the truth I still have a few more inches to go on a lot of it to be able to slope the ground away form the house and have a narrow planting bed against the house.
I think that once it is all done that it will look great, there is just so much digging that needs to be done. So far the finished bed has two rose bushes, one moved from the front of the house, with a third to be moved from the front sometime this week. It also has curly parsley, chives, oregano, eucalyptus, rosemary, thyme, lavender, and catnip. I will likely add some more to it as time goes on, but for now it is started.
Now I just have to dig out the other half of the yard, regrade and transplant what I need to, and dig down to the footers along the house. The last may take a while, but not too long I hope.
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