Showing posts with label dirt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dirt. Show all posts

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Tibby Tilling and Garden Moving - again

So, the garden is on the move again.
I'm moving my flowers out of the raised beds and putting them into 2 beds on either side of the garden.
The raised beds just didn't work with flowers. It was too hard to see the flowers and the path upkeep was daunting. It's hard enough to keep up the veggie garden paths. Now that I have a fab electric lawn mower I'm not afraid to mow. In fact, I've really enjoyed mowing my front lawn this year.
Ok
So maybe, maybe, lawn is not the total evil of gardening.
Hey, I obviously can change my mind.
I keep thinking my neighbors are saying, "Huh, it must be Fall, she's ripping up her yard again. Huh, it must be Spring, she's ripping up her yard again." Well, I don't care. People move around their living room furniture. The garden is my BIG living room.
Tibby helped with the tilling.

I can't blame her. I was digging holes, why shouldn't she dig a few.



The dirt was so soft and fluffy too.



Dig, dig,dig.




Ha!





"Ok too tired. I'll just take a little nap right here in this handy hole."





Some of the beds are removed.








I had to do everything in stages. Move a bed. Plant some perennials. Move another bed. Ect.









Fluffy black dirt.


These are parts of my yard I've never really taken pics of, because I was so embarrassed of them. Hopefully they will look better next year.

Back to work.


"What's a dirt mustache?"













Saturday, April 10, 2010

Garden Redo - Totally New!

I changed the garden!
Now, there are 12 beds in the veggie half with 3 foot paths between each bed.
I LOVE the 3 foot paths. It is so much easier to get a wheelbarrow in between the beds. Also, the layout is much easier to navigate.




Finally - FINALLY! I have the pond exactly the way I want it. No more moving- I promise.







This will be a little patio area, as soon as I can move the tulips.




I still have a lot to do. There are some interesting projects I have in mind.
Re-a-lly interesting.
If you speak Minnesotan, you know interesting has a different meaning here.
It is a polite way to say- gross, disgusting, never-do-that-again, but this time it means strange, unusual, weird.
Wa-ha! Stay tuned!




Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Bathing Chickens?

Yes! - You Can Bathe Your Chicken!
After a long cold winter, I gave the ladies a bath.




Use gentle baby shampoo and warm (not hot, chicken soup?) water.



Gently blow-dry the chickens' feathers dry or let them dry naturally.




Don't put your ladies back outside wet!
They can't keep warm with wet feathers!







Baths make chickens sleeply.....








Air dried tail feathers!



Ahhh - what a nice chicken spa day!