Fence, flowers, mulch and scythes

Its been a busy and good couple of weeks for us.  Last weekend, the kids and I transplanted several perennials from in town - 65 raspberry canes, 3 clematises and an assortment of herbs.  We also moved the arbor from in town.  And, if that wasn't enough, I couldn't help but stop by a garden center (or two) and pick up a few other plants.  :D  This little corner of the garden is starting to fill in...

The kids planting raspberries

Arbor from the south west gate

Arbor (and Jacob) from inside the garden

Catherine planting flowers

During the week last week, Jeremy managed to get all the wire strung for the fence.  That's no small feat when you consier that there's about half a mile of wire required to do 3 pairs of strands!  Then, this past weekend we started weaving withey's into the fence to make a more significant barrier to the various critters (namely deer) that would like to eat our garden.  As of the end of the day Sunday, here's where we were:

Cedar withes woven into the fence

While we've been working on these projects, Catherine has taken it to heart to plant a flower garden.  She has now planted some hundreds of seeds, plants and bulbs along the north fence line of the garden as well as helped plant nasturtiums where our squash will be this year.  It's been a huge help.

Catherine planting flowers

On Saturday we also stumbled across someone selling 2 scythes!  They are in good condition - one needs a significant re-peening to be in good cutting shape and the other is like new - and even came with a snath that's about Jeremy's size.  Now we can both cut grass or brush and we have a back up snath for someone who wants to help (and is over 6' tall).  Sweet!

New scythe blades!

Lastly, Jeremy lucked out and had his boss from work get us in touch with a tree service.  They need somewhere to dump many dump truck loads of chipped mulch and logs and we happen to need a TON (actually several tons) of mulch for the garden and various other projects around the farm.  SCORE!!  No pictures of this yet, but they've already brought by 2 dump truck loads of wood for us with the promise of many more.  Now we just have to get all that spread...