Field Trip

We visited the Arboretum today!  We did a little tour to check out some of the plants they have.  We saw a few that we would like to incorporate into the garden.  We also spoke to the workers at the arboretum about the pesky Japanese beetles.  They have completely demolished the leaves on our grapes!  The workers suggested that we just dump them into buckets of soapy water.  That is what they have been doing and it seems to be working for them.  We'll have to give it a try.

Morgan

Almost Done

I'm almost done with my project.  The next step is to mulch and then put the plants in.

Morgan

I finished the tiers yesterday.  Today I hauled some dirt from Dave's area to my project.  Dave is drawing up some plans for his grape trellises and Alex has been helping him with various things.  It will be nice to have the projects done so that we can get back to maintaining the garden.  It's hard to keep up with the weeds in this garden even when we aren't working on side projects!

Morgan

Still Moving Mountains

Today I made quite a bit of progress rebuilding the mountain.  I didn't really have a plan in mind, but I knew I wanted a tier system.  I will be close to done with it by the end of this week, and will probably finish putting all the rocks in and adding enough dirt next week.  Moving the rocks has been the hardest part so far.  I am pretty proud!  I've been moving along fairly quickly even though I'm by myself.  Dave and Alex have been working on Dave's project this week.  Garrett managed to get the skid steer stuck when he tried moving a large boulder for Dave.  I wish I could have gotten a few shots of that!  :P

Morgan

Moving Mountains

Today Dave and Alex helped me pull most of the rocks off of the herb mountain.  I managed to get it completely weeded and pull the rest of the rocks off later this afternoon.

These are the before shots.

Morgan

Pictures

Here are some shots of the garden for this week.

Morgan

Starting My Project

I've removed a few herbs from the herb mountain and re-potted them.  Once I finish removing the herbs we want to keep, I'm going to start removing the rocks.  I really hope that next week is not at hot as they promise it will be.  

I like the maroon and gold yarrow.

Morgan