I came home from bringing my daughter to an extracurricular to find a big pile of grass in the backyard. My wife said that she was trying to pull out some of the Ground Ivy that has been plaguing our yard and garden over the last few years and found that the sod just started coming up like a carpet, so she went with it. We spent the rest of the daylight hours as a family ripping up the whole damn backyard.

We still aren’t quite sure what we are going to put back there but at least this part is out of the way. I’m excited to see what we are going to do with it now.

Hoping we can knock out the rest of the Ground Ivy from the garden so it stops trying to choke everything else out.

We managed to score a bunch of slate and small boulders for free on Nextdoor. Most of the slate even matches what we already have around our garden so it’s working out perfectly. We are going to begin slowly extending the gardens out into the lawn, ripping out the sod as we go.

We had already begun planting micro clover last year, though it doesn’t seem very micro and is actually pretty large. But that is ok, it has filled in the back yard well and seems to be out-competing the ground ivy that has been plaguing us for a while. With this find though I think we will be able to get rid of all the lawn, maybe except for a small section so our kid can use the slip and slide.

Pretty excited and can’t wait to not have to mow anymore!