Do I hear Mrs. Augie letting you know that she wants the front lawn for family picnics?
I wish I had more room. I would buy a few cattle panels and arch them and use them to grow stuff like squash and tomatoes and cucumbers!
Cattle panel trellis: How to build a DIY vegetable garden arch
Oh well, going out to do lawn and yard stuff.
“cattle panels”
great idea.... deffenantly on my list to try this year.
Just came in from fixing (fingers crossed) the starter on my old ford 600 , ready to put on the 5ft tiller....
It’s been a warm winter here in Georgia ... so I think i’ll start turning up some dirt.
I’ve been feeding deer all winter ... I’m not sure how I’ll handle that ... tall fence maybe?
I think it will be very important soon, to have a good garden.
Finally, a nice weekend.
Raked and burned some leaves up around the house. Got a ton more Spring burning to do so the goats can have more food.
The other doe had one baby which puts me at 8 goats. I think it’s time to harvest last year’s buckling.
Pulled the trailer up and loaded some pallets on it. I need to make a dump run(12 years worth of non burnable trash), but it’s a flat car trailer so I’m going to cut some pallets in half, several of which have the double center 2x4s, and make temporary sides 2 foot tall. This Spring cleaning is going to be major.
Got some seedling mix moistened up. Going to get a bunch of cold weather greens/choy/tatsoi/lettuce sowed tonight.
There’s a place on my way home from work that has top soil for sale. I’ve watched it over the past year and never seen anything nasty pop up from the pile like thistle. A load of that plus a load of compost ought to be enough to do raised beds in the little front yard garden. Along with a sprinkling and watering in of a bit of lime. Aside from peas and peppers around the edges, I’m doing all short plants in this garden.
I’ll take some measurements tomorrow and see what I can fit for beds. I know I can do three and maybe four. Got a line on some free old rough sawn oak for sides. I can build them on top of some poultry netting or hardware cloth to keep the moles from coming up underneath.
Tomatoes and beans etc can go out there in or by the tunnel. Taters too. That reminds me. I never did dig my potatoes up from last year. They were volunteers. Might have to poke around tomorrow and see what I find.
Not at all. I'm just tired of looking at what it looked like out there and wanted to switch over to raised beds both for appearance and for ease of access. And I needed more space too so the big ugly stuff is moving to the back where I won't have to be as picky about what it looks like.
The Mrs. and I got our walk in and I still had some gas in the tank after so I finished placing all of the cattle panels in the fenceline on the north side of our house. I don't have them all fully secured to the posts, but for now it will keep the neighbor's dog from slipping in that way.
Then I finished moving the dirt pile from the front garden. I would have run the tiller over it and smoothed it up for planting grass but the battery was dead in the tiller tractor. I picked up a new battery this morning so maybe after work today I'll be able to finish that task.
The garlic seems to be thriving in last season's carrot beds. I'm not sure what I'll do with these four little planter boxes after the garlic comes out but they won't be staying where they are now.
