The Garden Guy and Mrs. Jan moved to our present house in spring 2019. Ideas flowed like a waterfall for backyard plantings, while the front yard was daunting, for one big reason: It is over a half-acre with a steep upward slope toward the home.
The Garden Guy was raised in west Texas, where trees were the occasional mesquite. Here in west Georgia, I felt like I was in a forest. Thankfully, in between Texas and Georgia, I got a lot of boots-on-the-ground training while working as a horticulture specialist for Mississippi State University.
Sometimes it can be hard for the preacher to take his own advice, but in this case, the old horticulturist remembered his lectures on taking the landscape modification in bite-sized chunks. If you are facing a landscape challenge, I urge you to take it in steps too. This reduces the stress on the mind and on the pocketbook. After all, The Garden Guy is basically retired and on a fixed budget.
