April 2017

Friday April 28
April has been a month with a lot of rain. The official rain measurement has been about an inch but it really seems that the moisture has been much more than one inch.  It's been a cold deary month with not a lot of sunshine.  Today I'll be taking my seedling plants down to the basement to keep them safe from the three days of rain and near freezing temperatures.  

 The last bed of the garden area for this year was finished and ready to be dug.  A total of 12 raised beds are finished and ready to be planted.  It's two beds more than I had hoped to get completed for this year.  Progress the last two years has been much more than expected.

Bed #11 has been dug and ready to plant.  This bed will be stirred a couple times before planting.

Stones and vines were under the surface of the ground in bed #11.  It will take many diggings to finally rid the bed completely of rocks and vines.

                         Bed #9 Potatoes Planted
The first cutting of 35th street Corner was used for mulch on the planted potatoes.

                         Beds #6 through #12
This is a picture of the North half of the garden with the six prepare beds.  Fences and pathway mulch need to be spread.  It's shaping up to be a good year.

Over all April has been a month of great accomplishments in spite of all the rainy weather.  It's time to start planting with weather permitting.

March 2017

Friday March 10, 2017
March has been an up and down month.  Warm temperatures, rain, and now snow and cold.  Then back to warm again.  My lettuce plants are ready to be put out but the ground is no way ready to have them planted.  It's time for the warm weather to stay and get better.

The bug patrol is on duty all ready.  Turkeys are roaming the neighborhood once again.  I didn't see many last year but this year they seem to be coming around again.

Bed number four is almost completed.  I'm hoping to get another two beds completed which will complete the entire north side of the garden.

Two stringers to support the platform.  They are set in hangers and leveled with the sides.

                        First half of Spring Platform
The platform was made from a heavy duty pallets.  The entire platform was water sealed both top and bottom.  Hopefully it will last a long time.
The back half of the platform will be made in the same way.  I've been thinking how to get water from the main spring over to the burried barrels to the right of the platform.  The stand pipe will have a sandpipe inserted in the tube with a old fashioned hand pump to be used to pump water out of the pipe.  I am thinking of building a wooden struture to simulate a wishing well around the pipe and pump.

Bed number five half way done.  Maybe next week will be good weather to work on finishing up this bed and getting the next one completed.