The garden is coming along it just needs to start to warm up a bit so I can plant some stuff. I hope to plant the peas, garlic, shallots, green onions, might plant some carrots, parsnips and then near the end of the week/weekend plant the lettuce, spinach and I have some kale i started indoors. It still needs a little more hardening off. there are also some leeks that I haven't started to harden off yet and will try for the week end on those as well.
On top of that on Thursday( if its nice out) I'm planning on digging up some rhubarb at a couple locations to add to the new garden extension I have been working on.
These are some old pictures from April 16, 2011 that Itook in anticipation of creating this blog
On the right half of the picture you can see the small raised bed that I had there the last couple years. It is going to be extended from 6' x 9' to 10' x 33'. I am using shale and low quality limestone on make the outer wall and reused cinder blocks for the back wall.
This is the front of the blacksmith shop and the flower bed I made 3 years ago. It contains 3 kinds of hosta's, day lily's, seedum, black eyed Susan's and on either end there is a lilac bush. On the far left of the picture is the small garden bed that will contain most of the greens and some tomatoes.
This is the bottom garden area, in past years i have planted pumpkin and gourd plants and just let them go wild out onto the lawn. They did not do well last year, so I decided to dig up that portion of the lawn and plant something different to mix it up. On the right you can see the compost bin I added. Compost has been in that location since before I was born but decided to try to build the bin to keep it in a more consolidated area.
:) Thank you for the welcome!
ReplyDeleteI like that if I don't get to talk to you, I can read about what you've been working on.
I will have a lot to catch up on when I get back.