Let the Garden Begin

Our little quarter acre will soon be known as the Montross Farm! The warm weather and longer days are allowing us to work on turning some grass into gardens. This week we planted currants and strawberries. Our strawberry patch is going to surround the fig trees. The previous owner had a rather ugly 3X6 foot cement block planter near the fig trees. We removed it and made one big planting bed. More room to grow and less grass to mow! We put sticks around the strawberry plants...to keep the dogs from sleeping on them until we can fence them in. The warm weather has gotten the dogs seeking cool patches of soil. We also moved our wood pile to the rear property line. We used about a 1/2 cord this past winter...if you could really call it winter.

Our little Mantis rototiller. It does a pretty good job.