Today it became very apparent that the guy from DOT did not know what he was talking about. Our day lilies are not safe where they are. We need to dig up and move all the day lilies from the bed near the cherry tree and about half of the day lilies on the driveway side of the yard. On the up side for the first time since we moved in we have good water pressure...
We have gotten our side of the garage primed and ready for paint. Toli decided not to paint it pure white but rather a very pale lavender similar to the color we have in the breakfast nook. That color changes throughout the day from "white" to grey to very pale lavender. Like the breakfast nook we will be using a greyed green for the trim.
I am going to be job hunting later this week. After being seduced with pretty photos of bunnies and low prices I weakened and ended up saying yes to a total of three new angoras. One is an adorable lilac tort English Angora. He will be for display only I am NOT getting into the Fraggle Rock bunnies. The other two are both Satin Angoras. Do si do is a chocolate agouti doe that will hopefully make some chinchilla babies when bred to d'Artagnan. The black buck needs a name yet but he will be a good match with Cloud Flower my sable pearl.
June 13, 2012
June 6, 2012
More garden changes
OOPS! I forgot both the cucumbers for Toli and our first attempt to grow potatoes when planning the garden. Thanks goodness for this online Garden Planner. It let me play around online with box sizes and placement as well as plants and plant placement. Really found it handy.
So drum roll please Here is what we are planning for the backyard "garden" area. Notice how many boxes I ended up with. 5 big boxes is not what we had in mind when I started this year but it was the only way to fit everything in. The biggest problem was fitting in my squash and his cucumbers...
Toli has been busy making the extra boxes needed and I get to do the heavy work and blend the soil for the boxes. He is at least helping me put it in the boxes. I also want to move my compost pile out of the corner and over near the wooden fence. I am hoping to actually find room for a 3 bin setup which will make life easier next year when I need compost for the garden boxes.
So drum roll please Here is what we are planning for the backyard "garden" area. Notice how many boxes I ended up with. 5 big boxes is not what we had in mind when I started this year but it was the only way to fit everything in. The biggest problem was fitting in my squash and his cucumbers...
Toli has been busy making the extra boxes needed and I get to do the heavy work and blend the soil for the boxes. He is at least helping me put it in the boxes. I also want to move my compost pile out of the corner and over near the wooden fence. I am hoping to actually find room for a 3 bin setup which will make life easier next year when I need compost for the garden boxes.
June 5, 2012
Slowly but surely the house and garden are getting done.
Toli has all of our side of the garage ready to prime and paint. He still needs to work on our neighbors side of the front. He has to repair their door and sand down that side then all the prep work will be done. Grin yes we are doing the FRONT of the neighbors side of the garage. They paid for him to do it and will buy any supplies needed for their side. It actually is in our best interests to make at least the front look cared for since our garage is one building shared with the neighbors.
The back door is done but I still need to scrape the bathroom ceiling and paint it. Then there are those front steps...
Two of my four garden boxes are in place and filled with something like Mel's Mix. Toli will be putting on their grids today and then I will start to plant. The smaller 3 by 3 box and the 1 x 4 box will have to wait until the wind dies down so I can mix the "dirt" for them. Grin I did way overbuy some parts of the dirt mix so may have to sweet talk Toli into another long narrow box to plant tomatoes in since I have ended up with more indet mater plants then I have room for if I want pole beans... Actually I have lots of room for plants it is just those climbing plants that I am lacking room for. When all the boxes are in place and ready to each box will have a trellis on one side so there will be a total of 15 ft of trellis space unfortunately with at least 8 mater plants in there that will take up most of that room leaving me none for cucumbers or pole beans or other climbing plants.
Toli has all of our side of the garage ready to prime and paint. He still needs to work on our neighbors side of the front. He has to repair their door and sand down that side then all the prep work will be done. Grin yes we are doing the FRONT of the neighbors side of the garage. They paid for him to do it and will buy any supplies needed for their side. It actually is in our best interests to make at least the front look cared for since our garage is one building shared with the neighbors.
The back door is done but I still need to scrape the bathroom ceiling and paint it. Then there are those front steps...
Two of my four garden boxes are in place and filled with something like Mel's Mix. Toli will be putting on their grids today and then I will start to plant. The smaller 3 by 3 box and the 1 x 4 box will have to wait until the wind dies down so I can mix the "dirt" for them. Grin I did way overbuy some parts of the dirt mix so may have to sweet talk Toli into another long narrow box to plant tomatoes in since I have ended up with more indet mater plants then I have room for if I want pole beans... Actually I have lots of room for plants it is just those climbing plants that I am lacking room for. When all the boxes are in place and ready to each box will have a trellis on one side so there will be a total of 15 ft of trellis space unfortunately with at least 8 mater plants in there that will take up most of that room leaving me none for cucumbers or pole beans or other climbing plants.
June 2, 2012
Garden changes
As posted before the boxes were all laid out then along come Toli...
The boxes got moved now three are along the garden fence line and one is out in the middle where the old trellis is. Together we got landscape cloth under all 4 boxes and they are ready for the soil mix.
We will do that tomorrow as we got all the ingredients for it today. Unloading all the bags took some time and Toli was like that is a lot of soil. Told him I have a lot of space to fill in the boxes and that any left over could be used in the day lily beds. Now I need to figure out how to measure out and blend the right amounts of each ingredient to get close to the right percentages for Mel's Mix that I am trying to get close to.
The boxes got moved now three are along the garden fence line and one is out in the middle where the old trellis is. Together we got landscape cloth under all 4 boxes and they are ready for the soil mix.
We will do that tomorrow as we got all the ingredients for it today. Unloading all the bags took some time and Toli was like that is a lot of soil. Told him I have a lot of space to fill in the boxes and that any left over could be used in the day lily beds. Now I need to figure out how to measure out and blend the right amounts of each ingredient to get close to the right percentages for Mel's Mix that I am trying to get close to.
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