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.