Mowing and mulching

We are definitely behind at keeping the ground covered in the garden this year with everything going on.  We also haven't knocked back the 4 foot high grass and weeds along the fence or the front of the property.  Guess what that means?  That's right!  Get out the mower, cut down grass/weeds and mulch.

It took 7 hours of mowing and 5 hours of mulching and weeding on Saturday, but we got it done.  Well, actually, we didn't quite get everything mulched.  We got all the tomatoes and potatoes, but the peppers are only partially done. 

As a bonus, we can now see our front planting bed that we made last summer again!  It had become overrun with grass and weeds. 

deeply mulched tomatoes

Jeremy halfway through mowing the front of the farm

The finished product - 5 hours later.

Our strawberries are also ripe at the farm.  Unfortunately, most of them are going to waste this year because we don't have time to pick and process them.  We did have a couple of pounds of them for lunch Saturday though.  Yum!

We will also be building a shed this coming weekend (well, we'll get most of it done over the weekend we hope).  When that is done, we'll start the process of moving to the farm.  Our goal is to be living at the farm by the middle of July.  There's lots to do between here and there though.  If you feel like doing some normal stick-frame building this weekend, come on out!