Beginner Gardening: removing lawn, building berms, 1 by orchid923

orchid923 wrote:
I removed all of my front lawn a year ago last January..... I've never regretted it.
We rented a sod cutter; then roto tiller and since the lawn was high and the soil would have run off to the sidewalk, we had to rent someone with a bob cat to take some of the dirt; the rest I used to create a berm along the side - between my yard and my neighbors. I put in ornamental grasses on this. Apart from the rentals we did all the work ourselves and saved a bundle (we did have the boulders delivered). I used weekblocker before putting down the path, pea gravel and mulch. It has all grown since, of course; I need to take an updated photo.

Now we also enjoy sitting on the front patio we created; a nice glass of wine in hand, listening to the distant purring of lawn mowers !!

Looks great. I'll post some before and after photos.