Fine Gardening? Well....
I come across all sorts of definitions of what customers believe gardening encompasses. For the most part, it means weeding, pruning and planting. You know, the horticultural stuff you'd expect. But occasionally, I'm hired for more mundane "property maintenance" tasks which may cover garbage pickup. I don't mind. as long as things are not hazardous to retrieve. And I don't deal with pet poo!
This short post covers weeding part of a small property in East York. No roses here, unfortunately, but if I'm solving a client's problem, the lack of flowers or shrubs isn't a big deal. Her back "yard" is more driveway and patio than actual garden beds (there are two raised beds but nothing in them.)
As the "before" pictures immediately below show, a general cleanup was in order.
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| East York Backyard Summer Garden Cleanup Before |
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| East York Toronto Backyard Summer Garden Cleanup Before |
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| Toronto Backyard Summer Garden Cleanup in East York Before |
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| Toronto East York Backyard Summer Garden Cleanup Before |
Afterwards.........
The client has no intentions of planting anything in the raised beds although they do receive a fair amount of direct sunlight. She prefers to spend her money in keeping the front gardens respectable but, eventually, the sight of tall weeds and garbage out of her back window was too much for her; hence, I was contacted.
My biggest challenge here was trying to no twist an ankle navigating the pile of old bricks to get to the clumps of mature Dog Strangling Vines. And there were many nails, broken pieces of tiles and other construction debris to avoid as I was weeding the patio.
As you can tell, I rarely work in pastoral estates. And that's fine. All that turf is unnerving!
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| East York Backyard Summer Garden Cleanup After |
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| East York Toronto Backyard Summer Garden Cleanup After |
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| Toronto Backyard Summer Garden Cleanup in East York After |
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| Toronto East York Backyard Summer Garden Cleanup After |
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