More yardwork

The weather was amazing this weekend and so we spent most of the weekend working on the yard. After cleaning up the brush from last week's work, we turned over the main garden plot. We were both amazed at how beautiful the soil is. Not a single rock! We were thinking of raised beds, but will probably just fence off an area for the vegetable garden. We used our mighty little Mantis tiller again. We created a planting bed along the garage wall where the woodpile had been. It is a really sunny spot and will work well to create a hot house eventually. We also created a new planter along the back side of the house, hoping to grow something that will block some of the summer sun from baking our brick wall. Finally, we installed two rain barrels that will help us water all the things we are hoping to grow.

Watering the strawberry plants (Spring has come so fast, we don't have the hose out yet).

New planter bed adjacent to rear of house...and our little tiller.

We decided to just reuse some existing blocks for now. We might put a deck out here eventually.

Ziggy supervised.

Putting in the last blocks.

We capped the wall with bricks from around the yard.

Rain barrel installed. We are hooking a soaker hose to water the bed.

Our little starters -- organic seedlings in homemade planter pots made from newspaper and toilet paper rolls.