Garden In The Window Boxes?

Cleaning out the window boxes and found these....

Sweet potatoes from the sweet potato vines in all the back of the house window boxes.  Don't think we can eat them.  Not feeding them to the chickens but I will cut them to see if the rabbits like them.

Cleaning Up A Bit In The BIG Bed

We are trying to get everything in for the end of the ten year plan for the yard.  Next summer will be the end.  Yes, sure it will be.  That's the plan anyway.  Hard to believe we have been here almost ten years.  Our first move to Cincinnati lasted 10 years.  We could break the record!  Nope the record is really 36 years in WV.  We have really never decided what to do with this big flower bed.  It is a combination of everything we have in the yard.  Next spring we will be growing wildflowers.

First we have repurposed the split rails to the other side of the yard around the vegetable garden.  There are some flowers in here that we will move to other places in the yard.  Probably dig up the ornamental grasses...any one want them?

Thinking of just piling up the rest of the leaves that will fall from the oak tree (and all Mr.John's leaves) here and then tilling it all up in the spring.  We will probably need to fence in this area so the chickens can't get in it.

Reworking The Garden

Thought we would rework the garden so next summer at the end of our ten year plan we would have everything like we want it so we can sit back and enjoy the fruits of our labor.

Using...repurposing and using some split rail fencing that we used on the other side of the yard to help build a fence.  The chickens have found the garden and are scratching it to death.  May not have any asparagrass that I have waited for for three years.

We didn't have any posts in our little pile behind the barn so Mark bought three.  And just look where they are from.  Going to be a great fence.

We took turns digging with the posthole digger.  That's like work!

We cheated just a bit.  We got smart and cut about 8 inched off the bottom of the post so we wouldn't have to dig as far.  Then we pounded it in as far as we could.  Worked like a charm.  Usually we put our posts in concrete...not this time.

I couldn't stand it.  One last post before dark.  I knew I could do it!

Finished Job...well almost.  

The plan is to dig us some rocks from the yard to line up under the fence to hold in all the wood chips that we are going to use to cover the grass.  That way we won't have to mow and I can get a few more beds in.  I want to try to do the herbs in a straw bale garden.  Still have some work to do but I'm pleased with it so far.

I'm Not Believing This

Candy Corn Vine

hydrangea

One poor old cone flower