I was excited to get home from work this past Friday and
work some more on our garden. Our
backyard has been a mess for some time and short of hitting it with the weed
eater a couple of times each summer we haven't done much back there. And is showed. I've really struggled with our backyard over
the years trying to make it nice. This
year I'm determined.
Bareroot strawberries I planted on Friday |
With all of the runs on food at the grocery store I decided
to add another garden bed area so we'd have more planting space. A couple weeks ago I used wood I already had
on hand to build it, then I lined the bottom with a layer of cardboard from
boxes I had. Then on Friday I added a
nice thick layer of our compost. Now I
need to come up with some soil to top that off.
That is a big pile of weeds and crap |
I pulled a HUGE pile of weeds out of our backyard. The wild geranium had seriously taken over and
I hate those things. They grow super
long fibrous roots and if you don't get it all pulled out then they just keep
popping up.
Look at the roots on those things! |
I spent a good portion of
Friday evening and Saturday morning pulling those dang things up.
I pulled up all the pavers |
About twenty years ago I'd set up a paver walkway complete
with a bed of sand underneath and gravel all around. Over the years that had fallen into neglect
and looked atrocious. I've tried to salvage
it in the past few years, but this time I decided to dig it all up. It made it much easier to dig up the wild
geranium that way too.
After the pavers were removed |
I moved the wood pile and cleaned up the old flowerbed that
hasn't had flowers in it in ages. I also
decided to pull up the plastic lawn edging that kept it separate of the walking
path. I'm hoping to plant some things
along the fence this year, probably pumpkins and squash.
I was able to burn up quite a bit of old wood |
We had a bad storm on Wednesday and the lawn was a total
mess after all that work the week before.
I got it cleaned up however, and used our firepot to burn up the sticks
and twigs that had blown from the trees as well as some of the wood in the pile
I had moved. I need to burn a lot of
that up as it is beginning to rot. I
also plan to spread the ashes on the walkways around the garden beds in an
effort to thwart the weeds. The I want
to cover it all with mulch.
Before |
Lastly, I pruned our fruit trees and cut some of the apple
limbs up to give to a friend for his smoker.
My daughter collected some of the sticks for her bunny to chew on
too. And we used some more of the sticks
to replace a few missing grids on the ramp up into the chicken coop.
After! |
It was A LOT of work, but boy it sure felt good once I was
done. I still have a lot more to do but
I am making progress and it is starting to look pretty good out there. I'll just keep plucking away at it a little
bit at a time. Eventually I'll get it
all done.
Looking good! Keep it up. A little at a time gets the job done.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I will. :o)
DeleteWhat kind of dehydrator did you purchase? Do you hava a link for it? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteIt is a Roseville and I quite like it.
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Thanks! They are currently out of this style, but I will watch and wait for it to hopefully to come back in stock.
DeleteOh bummer!
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