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post photos

Just noticed the video didn't save so re-pasted the Vimeo link. Thanks!

Still photos would be better. Very blurry video.

How many hours of sunlight does it get? It seems to be shady or maybe just the video. What is growing there now - looks like not much so I wonder how grass will do. Where do you live - e.g. closest big city.

Not sure what you mean by mix up the soil. If you don't remove or kill the weeds, they will just keep coming up. If you are planning to just rototill in the weeds, then it will be even worse because you'll cut the roots into little bits and spread them everywhere.

I like the video--it's a neat idea!

It looks like the metal is past its prime, so remove it. You need to come up with a landscape plan. A local garden center may be able to help.

A nice lawn requires quite a bit of work, as well as sun. Your video doesn't show it, but your trees might benefit from pruning. Limbing them up can increase the available sunlight, making things grow better.

Tommy, video is OK as an extra, but the basic necessity for looking at landscape is sequential still pictures that show a complete scene. For your back yard, stand on the patio and take a series of slightly overlapping photos that pan across the whole yard from right to left. In the first and last photo, we'll see part of your house, which will help us get our bearings. Given that you have a fair amount of shade from tall trees, hold the camera sideways to use a vertical format. And hold the camera level, not pointed down toward the ground. Landscaping is as much about creating background as it is about creating "floor."

The old steel edging might could be reused if you don't bend it up too much and if it's not rusted through. It doesn't need to show in the finished product but could still function to divide lawn from bed ... that is, if you can grow grass! Once we see pictures, we'd have a better idea. If you know you don't want to reuse it, toss it. If you might use it, set it aside out of the way. Depending on where it came from, it could be 10' or 20' lengths.

It would be helpful, too if you could draw a simple to-scale base map that includes the house walls, patio, fence, outbuilding and tree trunks.

Say where you are located so people can have an idea of what kind of climate you have.

And finally, what benefits/uses are you expecting to get out of landscaping. If it's only a nice view, that's fine. We just need to know if it is anything more.

Where are you located?

I would actually tear up all grass you have and start over. What to start with depends on where you are.

I would also pull up the border and redo if you want or not. Weed the gardens and add in some mulch and evergreen shrubs etc. Again climate dependent.

You have a good starting point though. I like it!