A few weeks ago we finally got around to putting in a yard for our house. I say finally because we bought the house over a year ago and up until a couple of weekends ago, our yard was just a bunch of dirt, rocks, and weeds. Putting in a yard from scratch isn’t exactly a quick and easy project. You have to kill and pull all the gigantic weeds. Get rid of all the rocks and concrete bits from construction. Dig trenches and install a sprinkler system. Grade the yard for proper draining and smooth out the dirt so it’s level. You have to place curbing, weed barrier, and mulch or landscaping rocks around the house. Then you prepare the soil so you can lay sod. You also need to buy a lawn mower, an edger, a leaf blower, etc. for ongoing maintenance of the lawn.