Putting my garden in for the local Edible Garden Trail has been a real kick to the butt so far as garden organisation goes.
To start with, it means cleaning up and sorting out the garden beds, beginning with wooden frames where the chook tractor can sit on top of it, and so I can know where the bed actually is...
I was really grateful to have![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
eggsbenedict come by to help out with power tools and practical design - although, yeah, maybe we should have done the design before building the first one...
Because the first one took ~6 hours to build on a day that was ~30C:
After that, though, the second one took only ~3.5 hours to build:
Admittedly this was with some pieces that we'd already cut from last time, a better idea of how to fit it together, and the assistance of a neighbour whose drop-saw we intended to borrow but ended up using more of his circular saw. (Battery operated! So much more powerful!)
Anyway, as I said, the beds are made so that the moveable chook tractor fits on top, so that I can put the chooks in there to peck, scratch, de-pest, and poop everything into mulch when the crop is done:
And now I know where the garden beds begin and end: it makes things just a squidge easier to manage - and just that wee bit prettier:
Pretty is not necessary for growing things, but it certainly helps when taking people around your garden! It's like neat is not necessary for entertaining people in the house, but it's kind of nice.
And here is a vid of me using power tools, taken byeggsbenedict:
Anyway, today is probably more bottling of nectarines along with working out how to get proper shelving into the laundry cupboard where I've been storing the bottles and jars of pickles, preserves, and so on.
And I have a job interview later today, over MS Meetings. Which I'd better check that I have correctly set up now...
To start with, it means cleaning up and sorting out the garden beds, beginning with wooden frames where the chook tractor can sit on top of it, and so I can know where the bed actually is...
I was really grateful to have
eggsbenedict come by to help out with power tools and practical design - although, yeah, maybe we should have done the design before building the first one... Because the first one took ~6 hours to build on a day that was ~30C:
After that, though, the second one took only ~3.5 hours to build:
Admittedly this was with some pieces that we'd already cut from last time, a better idea of how to fit it together, and the assistance of a neighbour whose drop-saw we intended to borrow but ended up using more of his circular saw. (Battery operated! So much more powerful!)
Anyway, as I said, the beds are made so that the moveable chook tractor fits on top, so that I can put the chooks in there to peck, scratch, de-pest, and poop everything into mulch when the crop is done:
And now I know where the garden beds begin and end: it makes things just a squidge easier to manage - and just that wee bit prettier:
Pretty is not necessary for growing things, but it certainly helps when taking people around your garden! It's like neat is not necessary for entertaining people in the house, but it's kind of nice.
And here is a vid of me using power tools, taken by
eggsbenedict:Anyway, today is probably more bottling of nectarines along with working out how to get proper shelving into the laundry cupboard where I've been storing the bottles and jars of pickles, preserves, and so on.
And I have a job interview later today, over MS Meetings. Which I'd better check that I have correctly set up now...
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