Mulch Love

One of the easiest, most impressive changes you can make to your yard is adding a little (or a lot of) mulch.  Adam and I took advantage of the beautiful weather this weekend and added new mulch to our front yard.

Here is how our front yard looked before the new mulch was put down:

Before we added the new mulch, we cleared out all the leaves that collected in our flower beds.  We also trimmed back some bushes that had gotten a little out of hand.  Look at how much fun Adam is having:

Jazzy supervised the whole project.  She could have come out front if she didn't like to trot off down the street when we let her out the front door. The little stinker. 

We started out buying 5 bags of mulch.  This turned out to be 6 bags short of how much we actually needed.  My one mulching tip is to buy twice as much as you think you'll need.  Adam had the brilliant idea to write down how many bags we ended up using and then putting that in our house file.  That way when we have to add more mulch next year, we won't have to make more than one trip to Home Depot.  I married a smart man.  

Here's how the front yard looks after our mulching project:

Now we just need all our plants to get green and grow flowers!