My Mister and CP worked on digging a trench to run the sprinkler line to our new smaller "big" garden. Since the house is going to be under construction this year, we'll have trucks driving over our regular garden spot. My Mister plowed up an area further south, leaving room for trucks to get through where they'll need to. It makes the big garden smaller than we'd like it, but we'll survive. Originally he was going to run a line all the way up the side of the garden, but the side by the sheds is so rocky that we decided to run the line just next to the sheds, and from there, just do some sort of above-ground line. We don't know if we'll need to use this garden again next year or can move back to our regular location which will soon be my back yard. (Imagine- gardening in my own garden in my own back yard....sigh...)
12 rows of green beans.
3 rows of potatoes.
One peach tree. This replaced the peach tree we planted with my dad two years ago that died over the winter. It's a little taller than I like for a new fruit tree, but it had the best shape of all the trees at the nursery. I can't remember the name, but it's a mid to late producer (which means it's safer from frosts), freestone, and very sweet.
One Bartlett Pear.
This is my potato tower. I plated 12 or so seed potatoes in the bottom. Once they sprout, we'll screw the first round of slats around the bottom of the tower and fill it in with soil or something... It will end up being a lot of soil, so I'm not totally sure about what I'm going to use. I have a big bag of peat moss, so I may use that. I also have a lot of old potting soil, which I may use. The idea is that as the plants grow, you build up the sides of the tower. I'll be able to harvest early potatoes by unscrewing the bottom slat and pulling the little potatoes out- all without disturbing the rest of the tower. I've posted the link before, but I got the idea from pinterest, and this website.
The strings are to deter Inti dog from romping through my newly planted garden. This is the bean side.
The potato side (well there are more beans over there too..). My Mister says I need to work on my straight rows. Whoops.
These are the raspberries we got from my cousin. We were going to plant them somewhere else, but it was filled with weeds, and we didn't have time to get it ready, since the raspberries were a last minute trade for some of our tomato plants. This will be a fine place for raspberries. I'm just happy to have a year head start from when I thought I'd be planting raspberries in my yard.
The far end that isn't planted yet will hold squash and as many tomato plants as we can fit in. Along the right side of the picture I planted a row of giant sunflowers.
Gratuitous chicken pic. I have two broody hens, and they weren't tempted out by the greens I tossed in.
I saw a tutorial on pinterest for a homemade wasp trap. We had several crawling around in the chicken coop, so I cut the top off of a 2-liter bottle, inverted the top inside the bottle, and filled the bottom with vinegar and sugar. I caught three wasps and several flies the first couple of days, but haven't caught anything since. I think it needs to be refreshed regularly.
Hello Egg. No reason for this picture, other than to express my joy that it is spring, and the grass is green, and the eggs are aplenty.
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