Comments on: Why I Hate Home Ownership Part XXXXXIVVVVIII.3

By: eviljwinter

eviljwinter — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:17:24 +0000

I want a deck. My condo has a deck, but I’m just the landlord now until the market comes back.

In 2015.

So I want a deck on our nice little cottage in Deer Park.

I may get it after we do a gazillion other improvements to it.

By: Bryon Quertermous

Bryon Quertermous — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:49:37 +0000

That’s brilliant. Whoever thought I’d get decent gardening tips from my blog?

By: Patti Abbott

Patti Abbott — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:53:50 +0000

Yes. We raised ours like that, put in a flagstone wall along it, planted new flowers and a few small shrubs and it is brilliant.

By: John R

John R — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:22:35 +0000

You could turn the flowerbed into a raised bed – planking or logs down the sides, dig out what’s there and fill the middle with topsoil and compost to start afresh. No digging (except getting the plants out) and no picking out the rocks because you’re effectively making a new ground level a few inches above the old. My ex has done much the same in her back garden and it took an afternoon to get two beds ready that would’ve taken days of digging and turning to do with the original ground.