This is what I have been up to lately...

April 8, 2014

This is what I have been up to lately...

With the weather getting warmer.. we have been working in

the yard... First we expanded our flower garden to include

the tree area...

Next ... we have been interested in straw bales garden.

So we thought we would try that this year..

We will have 3 types of gardens this year. The standard

ground garden.  The Eden project type of garden, that we

tried out last year in our raised garden beds. That turn out

pretty good.  It is where you lay newspapers down, and then

compost for about 4 inches.. with wood chips on top of that.

It lessens weeds. And that turn out to be true.  The straw

bales are suppose to be weed free.

Also we have thought it over and want to turn our raised

beds into a greenhouse... We figured while the beds are

starting this year.. we would take the time to build the

green house around them.. and in hopes to extend our

garden time.. having the green house finished by fall.

We were able to get our hands on some older windows

that are doubled.. and hope to incorporated them into the

green house.

So that is what we have been up to.. and the start of

the garden time of year.  

 the starting of the greenhouse..doing sides first and front & back...top in fall

 these are the window we got...laying on the bed ..for now..

 here are the bales, we started out with 5 for starters...doubling 4 of them and one single.

 this is the flower bed we enlarged to include the tree area

Happy Birthday, Emily