Well I got a total for the landscaping that I did this year. I am sure a few receipt will show up after I post the total but.........$608.01

I had pre-saved up at least $1122.73 to do this project and that was without me planning to do the border. I say atleast because that is the amount I transfered into savings from closing my $20 challange account.

Overall the professional estimate for this was $5,000+ which is not bad as our neighbor spent $15,000+ on his yard.

Here are some pictures!!
Before



The two shots above are the side of the house which you will notice in the first of the afters is nice lush and green now!


An example of the backyard before
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The After Shots

The beginning of this week


The backyard, dirt down seed down, just waiting for the grass to grow. Dirt has been placed down everywhere it is yellow. I used roundup to kill the crabgrass, weeds and filed grass. The picture does not show equal brown dirtness because of the fact I took this picture after the sprinkler system had wet some of it.
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The border, now it is not completely done all the way around as I am scouting out ads for free river rock so I can finish without spending $4.98 a bag on rock. But this is a little taste as having the film down is truthfully enough for me right now.
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The front flower bed which next spring will be filled with flowers!! The bricks are just to hold down the plastic until I can fill with flowers and mulch. The bricks were what we had used to frame the flower bed right in front of the house but it was not easy to mow around so I pulled them out and will try to sell them for cheap/ or donate them once they are done serving a purpose.