Park Terrace

 A new beginning. Starting over after working on Lewisburg for 21 years was difficult. Lewisburg was finally turn key. Just how I like it and was in maintenance mode. It was difficult to give up my researcher greenhouse, concrete raised beds, and chickens. 

Park Terrace has a lot of potential and it will take time to get it where I would like it to be. Thankfully we are working on it aggressively and won't take 21 years to do it.   

We spent last year 2025 remodeling the inside of the house. This year we plan on improving the outside of the house. 

We put in a smaller greenhouse and 8 wood raised beds. For which I'm grateful. The lemon tree, the kumquat tree are doing well in the greenhouse. 

We spent 5 hours pruning the old apple tree in the backyard. Who knows how old that tree is? I should measure the diameter and make a guess. 

We have a guy coming to grind all the branches on Thursday. 

I spent two hours mowing the weeds down in the backyard last week they were a foot high. 

Last summer I canned 80 quarts of applesauce, froze 24 pie fillings, dries some apples, gave away 10 boxes of apples. I don't know how many quarts of juice I made. I stopped counting.

Spent some time weeding the rose garden. 

Eric had planted 4 roses in the rose garden. Two were from Lewisburg. The Charlotte rose and the Olivia rose. The other roses were from around the yard in other places. We decided to have all the roses in one spot. 

I noticed that there are hellebores blooming in the back fence area. I thought I would dig those up and transplant them into pots for now. 

Because we plan on taking out old drip lines and adding compost to rototill in to amend the planting beds. 

I planted a persimmon last summer by the back fence because I wasn't able to bring the one over from Lewisburg. I love eating persimmons. 

In the raised bed garden we planted 3 blueberry bushes, a fig bush, and a couple of currents. 

We transplanted the purple asparagus that was in the raised bed garden into a raised bed. 

There are purple asters by the small garden shed 

A hydrangea behind the family room and Shasta daisies 

The previous owner planted a few dogwoods in the backyard. 

We planted a small maple in the side yard after taking out two trees. 

Just recently I had Eric take out two Rhody's that were in bad shape and an azalea. 

Last year we took out some sad looking heathers that were on either side of the driveway entrance. 

What attracted me to this garden was the light and the 1/2 acre. I was use to an acre. Eric loved that it was flat and not on a hillside. 

He loves a big lawn. 

In the front yard are 4 maple trees in a row in front of the house. On the side yard there is a large maple tree and the small one we planted. 

Where there was a dog run - we placed the raised bed garden. Eric took out a section of the chain link fence and gate to make the entrance larger for the orange wheelbarrow. 

I hope to get an arch structure to the entrance sometime and plant two grapes one on each side of the arch. 

I brought two grape vines from Lewisburg, that are still in the containers. 

We had a large shed built and put it in the backyard to store a lot of garden stuff. The little shed we moved to the back corner of the garden. I hope to turn it into a potting shed sometime.