Tuesday, April 08, 2014

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

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