"My back 40" - not 40 acres, so, 40 square feet?
You have been BUSY.
And all those shrubberies could set you back a year.... I take one look at think "Overgrown, outlived their usefulness, need to be replaced with herb gardens and little hawthorn trees" - how I'd love to be one of those backyard neighbors and help you dig in the dirt, pull up those tree roots (ok no, I lied, I'm not good at that, not strong enough, not equipped with the right tools or musculature). Already yo've planted some garlic and amended a patch of garden soil. No wait, before winter, you hope to have done that. PHEW I was about to be in total awe if you'd managed that already after a hellish week of moving. It's been 21 years since our last move and I am still in recovery. The process of DISCARDING, minimizing, reducing the stuff we accumulate over the years. Sometimes flood and fire will make those decisions for us in one fell swoop. GOOD LUCK with all the contents of previous home mingling and merging in the new abode. Ouch. I cannot even think of it right now....
lol I had just recovered from my move 21 years ago when I made this one.
Yeah, I've haven't done a thing out there except for muse. I will soon be planting a specimen that I have been carting around from home to home for the past 40 years. It is as yet unidentified by any of those who have visited my gardens, and I found it growing on our lake property, where it may have been planted 150 years ago. It's long gone from the lake. I am the last keeper of this plant as far as I know.
First things first in my new house - getting music happening. The electrical wiring is very old and needs upgrading. My piano is out of tune.
Jimmy appears to be dying again. Off to the vet again soon.
The garden is going to have to wait!