When we first got our patio installed, the surrounding ground looked like this (right). That ragged slope is formed from several blocks of sod that we dug out of the area where the patio now is, which westacked up around the edge to build up the ground to the required height. They're stacked about three high closest to the near corner of the patio, then the stack drops off gradually in all directions. This helped make the overall slope of the yard near the patio a bit less precipitous, but it was still rather uneven and tricky to walk on.
As of last weekend, however, it looks like this (left). Basically, we just scooped up dirt from the bigpile we had left over from the excavation stage, dumped it over the terraformed areas, spread it out, and stomped on it until we had a relatively smooth slope. With the new dirt layered over the old turf blocks, the slope is now less steep and more even than it was before—but unfortunately, the bare dirt doesn't make a terribly stable surface. Eventually, we'll seed it over with grass (ideally a variety that can compete well with our stubborn lawn weeds), but according to the lady in the garden department at Home Depot, we'll need to wait until fall, because grass doesn't germinate well in hot weather.
So at the same time as we watch for planting time, we're going to in all likelihood should undergo numerous rounds of constructing up and tamping down the slope to get it incredible and employer. Fortunately, we've got although got loads of dirt left to art work with. Unfortunately, there can be no manner this slope is going to expend all of it, even after more than one rounds of along with a little more on every occasion. I wager we're going to grow to be pushing the rest of it up onto the hill behind it, to cover itself some of the weeds and forsythias. By the time we get around to changing the ones weeds and forsythias with some component else (that lets in you to probable be our next big landscaping project), the more dirt ought to be completely incorporated into the hillside.
Too awful we cannot make the ultimate concrete chunks disappear into the landscape just as with out issue.
