New Backyard Beds Step 1: Automower Wire Removed
Back in March, I decided that one of the projects that we wanted to take on this season was the creation of clean, new, swooping bed edges in our backyard. And, in order to figure out what I needed to do - and by who - I created a simple order of operations list of the steps as I see them . Step one: pick up the Automower boundary and guide wire that rings the perimeter of our backyard. I started on that project recently and have made some progress. Here, below, is about 40% of the backyard boundary wire that I've pulled up out of the grass and collected the spikes that hold it in place. This set of wire is littered with those little pigtail plugs that connect the wire in various places that it has severed over the years. This section of the wire has been picked up and reset various times over the years, so it wasn't that hard to pull up. There are other parts (the remaining 60%) that hasn't moved since I put it in initially back in 2017, so it is bur...