Kids helping to build the fort
The finished fort
Then while the kids played with their friends in the new fort, I worked on more garden beds. I put the first 2 layers on 2 more beds (straw and topsoil) and set out bales to start decomposing for all the rest of the beds. You can now kinda see where everything is going to be.
Then, to finish the day off, we used more bales to build a temporary compost bin. Every garden needs one of these and ours is no exception!
Straw Bale compost bin
Also, Jeremy was able to go out a couple of times this week and do some more clearing where the house will be. He also cut some additional poles to finish off the garden fence. Sometime in the near future we'll get to wrap that project up.
In addition to all these things, we have a lively debate going about exactly how big the garden is going to be for this year. We did some math and figured out that we could fit 48 4x20' beds inside the fenced area. That would make this garden roughtly 2.5 times the size of our former garden in town. Given that we'll be busy building a house this year, it seems absurd to try for that much this year. At the same time, we've had several people offer to come help out and we really miss fresh garden food. I can say for sure that we'll have the 16 beds laid out in the pictures above. What we'll have past that, I don't know.
In the meantime, our seed stand is full of baby onions and lettuce. The stand is just a set of metal shelving from Home Depot with standard 2 and 4' shop lights.
Onion seedlings
Lettuce seedlings
Each set of lights is hanging from some inexpensive florist chain so that I can raise and lower them by which link I hook on the hook. We've been using this system for 4 years now and it has worked quite well for us.
The full seed stand
Chains holding the lights
Sorry for the less frequent posting! Despite the days being short, they are surprisingly full these days.
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