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Tcorbitt20 new home lawn journal

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#1 ·
We're on the cusp of getting started building our home, but we're not quite there yet. I thought I'd start this journal to help document it all along the way. We bought 21 acres that I'm really looking forward to working on for the rest of my days.

This is roughly where the house will be. Picture taken last winter after we bought it.

Ours is roughly what's inside the red


I took my riding mower from work out there today to help mark where I want our driveways for the builder to have something to go by. Hopefully he'll be able to get started in the next few days.









This sketch isn't very accurate, but it's an idea and the best I could do drawing with my finger on my phone.


This is gonna be fun. I need to get a drone...
 
#4 ·
adgattoni said:
Redtwin said:
Better get a Toro 3100D to go with that drone!
Might need a fairway mower with this lot! What sort of turf are you thinking @tcorbitt20?

I would leave much of it naturalized with manicured spaces around the house and driveway. Sort of like Whistling Straits:

That's what's I was thinking of doing - keep it nice and reel cut for maybe 3/4 an acre around the house, and keep it mowed along the driveway and bush hog the rest. At some point in the future, I'd like to build a pond in the southeast corner and maybe a nice barn somewhere, too. As far as the turf, I think I've settled on Celebration unless something changes my mind in the next few months.
 
#13 ·
thelawnpirate said:
This is awesome. Such a cool property, keep the drone shots, pictures, and updates coming! Plans for your garage/lawn equip storage space?
Thanks! I plan to take plenty of pictures once I get a chance to get to work. The garage is big enough to fit my truck (finally!), so the third bay will have its share of stuff. Got a little John Deere tractor, and we've got a golf cart, four wheeler, and other stuff that I'll have to figure out a way to cram in there. I'd like a barn one of these days.

ericgautier said:
Beautiful home!
Thanks!
 
#17 ·
Thor865 said:
great property, almost time to get your dirt right, but until then dirt stripes drone shot required
Nothing but bush hog scalp marks right now. I'm planning on plowing it all in early spring and using some kind of drag to smooth it all out. You can't drive anything across it east to west without it shaking you to death.
 
#21 ·
Thor865 said:
Brackin4au said:
If you play golf at all, I see no reason why you shouldn't end up with a tee and green for a par 3 hole... maybe a few small tees placed around the property, all going to the same green haha
I love the guys that do fried eggs golf on YouTube. They did something similar
That's exactly what I was thinking about when I commented ha
 
#22 ·
That would be a fun idea, but I'm not a golfer. My son is getting into hunting - deer, turkey, whatever he can hunt. The triangle going down the hill behind the garage side has a feeder down there (and has been a food plot in the past). I think I'll probably plant a bunch of trees across the big field behind the house to plant another food plot back there. I also thought about maybe some kind of wiffle ball field with a real outfield fence somewhere. Who knows...
 
#23 ·
tcorbitt20 said:
That would be a fun idea, but I'm not a golfer. My son is getting into hunting - deer, turkey, whatever he can hunt. The triangle going down the hill behind the garage side has a feeder down there (and has been a food plot in the past). I think I'll probably plant a bunch of trees across the big field behind the house to plant another food plot back there. I also thought about maybe some kind of wiffle ball field with a real outfield fence somewhere. Who knows...
I like where this is headed...