Hey everyone,

Sorry I didn’t post yesterday, but we were too busy enjoying the great weather! Before I update you on our weekend outdoor projects, I thought I’d give you an update about how amazing Andrew is and how he surprised me. When I got home after spending the weekend with my parents for Mother’s Day, I found that he had prepared ALL of our gardens and planters for the plants that are coming today! Not only did he fill the raised bed gardens with the compost/dirt mixture that our neighbors picked up for us, but he also got the raised bed planter on the deck and the planter by our back door ready. Then he got the garden we share with our neighbors prepped too! It was just amazing to come home to all of that work being done.

On to more exciting things- we finished our grape project on Saturday! Here is a before picture so that you all have a sense of what we managed to do.

After I got the grape vines all untangled, I had to wait for Andrew to work on putting up the new lattice trellises. In the meantime, I worked on our front yard’s landscaping. Not nearly as exciting and I didn’t even think to take photos but I got all the fallen leaves, weeds, and dead plants from the fall out of the bushes. There was a lot more there than it looked like but now the front yard looks way better!

Once Andrew woke up, we went back to work on our grape vine project. First up- Andrew attached some cedar boards he had previously cut to the back of the cedar lattices that we bought for the back wall of our garage. Once those were attached, we had to hang all 4 lattices. The first one was definitely the hardest to do! We had to get it high enough but not too high and placed level and close enough to the door to fit the other set of lattice next to the first set. Here are some photos I managed to grab during the lattice hanging part of this project.

After the first lattice trellis was up, the other three were much easier. Then we got to have a great lot of fun untangling the grape vines from each other and hanging them spread across the garage. I know it is hard to tell in the photo, but I’m working on attaching one of the vines. The leaves haven’t popped so it might be hard to see the vines on the cedar but some of them are noticeable I think. Below is also the finished project!

Also, in that last photo you can see how beautiful the blooms are on our weeping crabapple tree. Now that we’ve finished the back fence, the grapes, and prepping the gardens the only thing left is to plant!

~Natalie