2 Down, 9 to go!
Today I made the first of 2 raised beds for the peas. I like my peas to munch on all summer and fall long, so I've got 2 - 10ft long by 2ft wide raised beds going in for the peas. I'll be making a fence down the middle of it probably using a stock panel on posts for the peas to train on. It should look awesome this summer!
And that raised bed I made yesterday? Well I've been writing down my plans for the garden this year in a nice grid, and gridding out where the vegetables and raised beds are going and I've decided my 3 - 4x4ft raised beds will contain tomatoes this year. If I divide those beds up into quarters I can comfortably (with lots of breathing room) get 4 tomatoes per bed in there, I had about 12 tomato plants last year and we were over-run with tomatoes so I'm hoping we'll be overrun again this year!
Here is the raised bed with the poly-tunnel frame set up
And with the plastic on
Right now I have peatmoss in the bottom of it, and I'll be adding black earth when I'm ready, but until then near the end of this month it'll make a great hot house for my hardening off some of my plant starts.
Turns out I have 2x6x12's as well from the barn so I'm using those for most of my beds. I like the deeper ones for the Tomatoes though!
And somehow I managed to get Cissy's (goat!) feet completely trimmed! WOOHOO
Work for tomorrow....
Put together the other 2ft x 10ft pea bed, put together one or two of the 2ft x 8ft raised beds for the lettuce, and I have to figure out still what I'm doing for carrots as I'm going to need a deeper bed for those...
Start mucking out Luna's paddock
Finish cleaning the ice shed, cut pop door bigger, remove chickeny things, scrub with virkon and let the goatie brains in! (Kev will do most of this)
Clean goat shed, scrub with virkon, put the nestboxes and a new roost in there for the chicken heads, put up mesh on the vents and taadaaa temporary chicken accomodation!
The sun is beaming down and it makes me want to plant things even though we are still 14 weeks away from last frost...
Like unbelievably green. Last year we had to mow our lawns about 3 times a WEEK! Thats why we have such a big weed problem, our land is pretty fertile and the first year I dug down it was like pure black earth, BEAUTIFUL stuff. Black gold here. I think its because this place used to be a big cattle farm, about 60 years ago was the last time it was operating and my gardens are located in what used to be a small sacrifice area for the cattle up by the house. 
