The whole area was covered in gravel, except for three planter boxes (dotted lines). These get too much morning shade for veggies. The area between the cedar and the dotted line is shady and grows weedy grass in the rainy season.

The plan is to put in a small grass area for Evan to play, replace the old planter boxes with three new raised beds in the sunny part, and grow berries and a pair of citrus along a wire fence along the edge of the hill (which should also keep Evan away from the edge...).

We're going to (mostly hire someone to) remove the old planter boxes, move lots of gravel, spread compost, rototill, add mulch, build new raised beds, dig trenches, build a whole new sprinkler system, install sod, build a wire fence, plant berries and plant citrus and trees.

I planted four raspberries (two varieties), one boysenberry, and three blackberries.

raked, smoothed, and ready for sod

500 square feet of sod

all rolled out

new 5 zone sprinkler setup: grass (2), vegetable beds, flower bed/avocado, berries/citrus

sprinkler pipes going in

cedar chips and bricks on the edge

trenches for sprinklers

raised beds ready to be moved

uh oh, grass is popping up already (not the grass we want)

6 yards of compost!

compost on the future vegetable beds

compost on the future grass area

compost on the edge where berries and citrus will go

gravel removed from site for vegetable beds

gravel removed from site for grass

landscape farbic where the beds used to be

one former bed covered in gravel

one bed ripped out already, working on the next one