Monday, July 13, 2015

Kirsten housewarming

Kirsten bought a house a while ago and we finally got around to giving her her house warming present.  Bulk buying of the raised bed kits we such a good deal that we bought a few extra just in case.  Which was lucky because then we had some to give to Kirsten!
Here Keith and Eric are working on setting the first one up.  I of course had just thrown my back out so I was useless, but I could take pictures!




Sunday, July 12, 2015

Meet Hank

Dad's got another one!  Meet Hank.  Super cute

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Summer of the pickle

So I planted lots of cucumbers but I don't eat them except in pickle form.  And they are very productive.  So, it looks like it will be the summer of the pickle!

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Friday, June 5, 2015

Strawberries!

Strawberry season again.  Picking with Ali

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

More garden

Blueberries

Corn and squash

Flowers will go here

Reject fishing poles from Tim for our bean tp

Monday, May 25, 2015

Bees!

Our neighbor had a swarm hanging out at eye level on an oak branch in his yard.  We decided we couldn't pass that opportunity up and rushed to pull out the bee kit I bought for Eric 3 christmases ago and put together the last of the pieces.

Here is the swarm hanging out on the branch



Eric cut the branch and put it in the box

A few hours later, we moved the bees across the street, and tada! We have bees!

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Garden update

Well, we finally got the raised bed built and then I had to fill them.  For the ones adjacent to the parking area, I was able to get pickup loads and fill them by hand.  This allowed me to plant my currants and gooseberries.  As well as some onion starts that I threw in just for the heck of it.  It took 3-5 truck loads to fill each bed (short vs tall bed).  I filled 5 of them.  ugh

I also got the asparagus planted, over month after delivery but they are in the ground!

Potato boxes started! Artichokes in the ground

for the rest of the beds, instead of doing the wheel barrow thing, we hired a guy with a conveyor truck.  It was wonderful.  He just shot the dirt where it needed to go.  

It was glorious

the berries are filling in

Some squash and cucumbers getting started

the potato boxes are pretty cool if you've never seen them.  You just keep adding layers as they grow and theoretically get a tower of potatoes.  

Here's the beds with lots of starts planted

grow babies grow!