For background, check this out.
We live in a cute new subdivision – all the houses are less than 5 years old so there isn’t much in the way of landscaping yet. Well, when we moved in, the owner of our house decided to hire a random handyman he knew to do our landscaping. Bad idea.
Very bad idea.
We wound up with a front yard that is nothing but beauty bark. Big, huge chunks of nasty bark. There wasn’t any tarp put down under the bark so weeds grow up. We’ve been dealing with this for 2 years now and finally the property management people have sent someone out to look at it. The fabulous news is that we might be getting nice lush sod out front and hopefully on the sides, along with some nice mulch-type bark instead of the huge chunks! Yay!
Of course, while out in the yard, walking around with the real landscape guru today, I got eaten up by carpenter ants. Apparently, they love the bark and make their nests in it. When they bite you, they actually inject a smidge of formic acid into the bite. No wonder my feet aren’t happy tonight.
Glad to know that something loves the bark because I sure as hell do not.
