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I subscribe to the retiree's creed: don't pay for anything that you can do yourself. But I'm sort of on the fence when it comes to landscaping, so I'm curious about how others have approached this issue.
I've got slightly less than an acre on a property we bought last year. I've already finished remodeling the house, so now it's landscaping time. Privacy shrubs, fencing, a playground for the kid, deck expansion, and basically transforming a blank slate into a "landscape."
Just looking at my list, I think I need the skills of a landscape architect, heavy machinery operator, fence builder, and botanist. I'm pretty sure I can figure out how to use an auger to dig holes for fence posts, and maybe even plumb a fence, but the rest of the stuff eludes me.
So, how did you guys approach a project like this? Farm the whole thing out? Just farm out the landscape architecture part and try to come up to speed on the rest of stuff? Or did you just wing it and end up paying a hefty tuition on your naive screw-ups?
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