A year after I moved in, I dug up the 8x10 patch of grass and turned it into a flower bed. I have Mexican evening primroses. I can reccomend them. They are lovely, low maintenance, and prolific as hell. I started with 3 scrawny plants. Now I must have 30 0ut there.

Much of the back still has to be mowed. I have a rotary mower. The hellhole I call home has a code officer, the wife of a borough councilman. We don't actually have a code, but that doesn't stop the bitch form fining people, so I cut that stuff.