Raised bed garden

 

Eric built 8 raised beds out of corner blocks and lumber. 

We still need to put the topper boards on. 

We brought in good soil to fill the garden beds and put wood chips for the pathways. 

We brought over the plastic tool shed from Lewisburg as well as the three plastic compost bins. 

We planted 3 blueberries from Lewisburg and 2 current plants 

I bought a fig bush from a garage sale in the neighborhood. 

Eric dug trenches to move the water line in the raised bed garden and extend it to where we had a green house built. 

He took out part of the chain link fence to have a larger entrance to the raised bed garden so we could get the orange wheel barrel in the space. 

I put the patio umbrellas in the garden last summer when it was too hot for some of the plants to create some shade. 

We transplanted the purple asparagus the previous owner had into one of the raised beds. Last week I found a dozen strawberry plants that were in a wine barrel that was falling apart and planted them around the border of the asparagus bed. 

I planted Trudy's purple morning glory seeds at the end of one raised bed. I'm hoping they will grow. 

I also planted some garlic, and shallots in another raised bed. 

The three composters are filled with maple leaves that fell in the front yard. 

We put leaves on all the raised beds over the winter. I recently took the leaves off and plan to move them elsewhere. 

The leaves kept the weeds out of the raised beds. There were a lot of fat worms on the surface of the raised beds that were under the leaves. 

There were some iris in the raised bed garden area we dug up and I haven't re planted them yet. I was thinking of planting them in containers for now. 

We've fixed the wooden gate to the raised bed garden.