Here are some of the jobs that I worked on this summer 2009/2008.

1) This is a beautiful big backyard of a smaller house in Fort Garry.  July 2008. Cost $200

I did the makeover of the back and front yard for the customer who was going to sell the house.

- trimmed the low cedars which were spreading way too close to the pool.

-  dug out 4 bags of 3 foot weeds from the 4 beds... cut some 5 foot suckers/branches

- blew the leaves and dead cedar from the beds, raked and bagged

- I trimmed back the strawberry bushes on the right side

- added a few nails to the fence, blew/swept the driveway

- pulled 4 foot tall weeds(continuous weeds)  from a large 15x15 garden bed and rototilled it

- trimmed a tree in the front yard, trimmed the low hedges in the front, blew out the beds etc

- I put the bags of leaves out for the garbage men and tied up 4 bundles of branches. 

2) Way too much vegetation in front of the house! (before and after shots) $200

This house in River Heights just had hedges/trees that took over the entire front of the house and 20 foot tall trees on the side of the house which were on the roof which could damage shingles. 

I cut down 2 trees in the front and 3 on the side of the house. Trimmed the low cedars away from the sidewalk and shortened the hedge. Rototilled the bed for adding future landscape rock. I put out 10 bags of junk for the garbage and put the 10 tieds bales of branches out over 2 weeks of garbage pickup. I took away the bigger wood.

3) A big ol' pile of weeds....Cost $80. Pull weeds/rake/20 big bags. $80

This customer in Linden Woods got tired of staring at the pile of soil filled with weeds that his landscape contractor left for 2 months. 

The other 10 houses  beside this one had entire yards full of weeds since their weed-infested soil was spread on their yards to await landscaping. This picture was taken when I was nearly finished. I also pulled the weeds along the fence and lawn mowed some of the rest.

4) A bed which has seen better days. $200

This customer in West Kildonan had beds in the back and front which were really in need of shaping up. 

I  dug out the original bed outlines and created some new curvy ones with my edger. I pulled 10 bags of weeds and trimmed about 10 heges back. Trimmed some perennials. Blew out the beds, raked, bagged and rototilled. I did the front as well.

5) FOUR FOOT WEEDS in the ENTIRE BACK YARD! Rumors of a SKUNK! and a HORNETS NEST! YEEAH. Cost $250.

Yes, this yard in Garden City in Sept 09, was one of the best in terms of the worst, you might say.

 Family issues and some illness led to basically the customer not touching the back yard for a  few summers. 4 foot nasty weeds throughout and overgrown shrubs and grass of course. Neighbors claimed that they spotted a skunk although thankfully I did not.

I pulled out and dug out the tall weeds and mowed the rest... trimmed the hedges... cut down a few dead trees and dead branches... raked and bagged garbage beneath...cut the grass in stages...

The customer gave me a map showing what hidden gems were to be found under the weeds and jungle-like terrain... a bird bath... wishing well (I needed all the well wishes I could get)...etc.

I did walk thru the whole yard first with a stick to ensure that I wouldn't cut up any foreign objects and found what I "thought" was one of those fake bees nests. I mean...surely a real one couldn't be THAT big! Well..it was real. I wore a body/face suit the rest of the day and removed the nest and returned a few days later. I only received one bite when I forgot to put my glove back on.

Place looked nice and ready for a proper grass cutting and some grass seed to restore the yard a little. 

This is a shot taken in the middle of the weed pulling and mowing session...note the 4 foot high weeds and grasses.

This is the front of the yard. Lots of weeds in the small beds by the front of the house... overgrown shrub in the corner and a weedy front low cedar shrub.

I trimmed the front shrub and cut down the small tree growing in the middle of it, pulled the weeds in the front beds and gave the evergreen tree a nice new circle around it for definition and a clean edging around the cedar as well.

I blew out and vacuumed the leaves and cones under the shrubs.I bagged the leaves, tied up all the branches for the garbage men and took some of the bigger logs out myself.

5) Customer wanted it all gone. Get rid of the overgrown weeds and perennials. River Heights. $200.

6) This isn't Graceland but I do feel like Elvis when I work here.

This is a lovely house that I have been doing some gardening at for a few years now. Hedge trimming, weeding beds and reshaping the beds. I spread some 5 yds of soil in the beds and a few more to go. "love me tender....love me sweet....never let me go..." thank you, thank you very much!

7) You don't have to be homeless when you have 4 homes.

This customer wanted me to do yard makeovers on his 4 homes in Tuxedo. Sure. Why not. I am a giver. Tuxedo is a nice place. I'd even buy a house there...when my ship full of diamonds and platinum comes in. :)

8) Eaves Got Onions? $80 later the eaves were clean as a whistle!

This smaller house in the North end had something that looked like onions growing in the eaves. The eaves were so solid packed that I had to take off the upper downspout to unclog it. I used the hose after to make it jiffy clean. Heck, you could eat out of those troughs when I was finished. Of course, you'd have to be pretty hungry... but after all, people eat Sushi.

The END. Or is it?

Please tip your server on the way out.

No animals were harmed during the making of this webpage. Although some earthworms did meet an untimely demise when I rototilled their beloved garden homelands. Sorry bout that one.

Oh yes...that phone number again to get me to do work for you is 951-8889.

Yes, go get a pad of paper to write it down and I will wait. Here it is again. 951-8889.