DIY landscaping: How to avoid the biggest lawn mistakes that Northeast Ohioans frequently make – WKYC.com

CUYAHOGA COUNTY, Ohio

With the extra time indoors and budgets tight, "Do It Yourself" projects can be a great way to pass time, upgrade your home and distract you from the stress associated with a changed way of life due to COVID-19.

With all this in mind, my family decided to tackle a backyard DIY landscaping project -- and lucky for us, our neighbor, Isaiah Brazytis, is a professional landscaper.

This is a great time to work on your yard, Brazytis says. You're at home anyhow.

BIGGEST DIY LANDSCAPING MISTAKES

Brazytis is a maintenance supervisor at LeafStone Landscapes out of Walton Hills. He says the biggest DIY lawn mistakes Northeast Ohioans make are planting things that deer like to eat and taking on a project too big to handle.

Here are before-and-after photos of their landscaping project:

PROFESSIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WIGGINS FAMILY

After looking over our lawn with my husband, Chris, Brazytis recommended we clean up our flower beds, lay down mulch and put in a path from the side of the garage to the driveway. The path would give us a spot for our grill that's not so close to the garage.

Our budget for the project was $400.

My kids and I are not good at landscaping, so Chris did most of the work through hail, snow and rain during this week-long April project.

Even though we did go over budget (spending a little more than $500), the entire family was proud of how the patio, walkway and landscaping turned out.

Daddy, didnt do a good job, said my 9-year-old, Christen. He did amazing!

Although we made the mistake of making upgrades that we didnt budget for, Brazytis told us that if we had hired a professional to complete the same project, our cost would have doubled. Needless to say, we didnt mind spending the extra $100 to get what we wanted.

LANDSCAPING MATERIALS AND PROCESS

Materials

Flower Bed Process

Patio and Walkway Process

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