Yard Happenings

As usual, it has been a busy year in the yard. I wanted to post a few pictures so years from now we can remember what things were. Here goes....some VERY unedited photos.

Planting asparagus.

This is how Dave looks EVERY day. Straw hat, white t-shirt, work gloves, and work shorts. From dawn til dusk.

The goats new "summer home". Thanks so much Mary and Joel for helping out on this one! They now have shade for  the whole day AND I get to plant corn in their "winter home". Win win! This was my mothers day gift!

We put a "trailing rail" up across the top. It seems the goats like their "winter home " so much they REALLY wanted to jump out and get back to it. They have settled in now and are loving it. Time to take the rail down.

New shade over the deck and sandbox. We ended up using banner material (Dave does work at a sign shop) instead of shade cloth. the shade cloth did not block as much of the light as we hoped. These will do great until the tree you see grows a bit more. Again thanks Mary and Joel for post installation help. 

This is the third year for the grape vines. It looks to be a good one! Yay for grape juice this winter!

As usual the garden is producing more than we can keep up with. I hope when the kids a re a bit older I will get better at preserving things.....I should be freezing tons of broccoli right now!

The new corn garden. I can't wait to see how this turns out. The soil was SO incredible after Dave tilled it. Years of goat poop in it. So excited! The goats will live here all of fall, winter, and spring. Then they will move over when it's planting time.

This "temporary"(been there for years) path will be gone soon to be replaced by the  brick path.

The big construction zone. Many more grow boxes to come.

We planted 12 more fruit trees this year. I think all apple. This brings the fruit tree total to 27ish. This is a bad photo but I wanted to remember how small they were. They grow so fast! All these trees also had to have water run to them. The whole yard is now on automated sprinklers!!!!! YAY!!!!!! But poor Dave's back!

The first two grow boxes in the construction zone. We plated asparagus in the first one. It seems to be doing well so far. It is a commitment, we will not harvest for two years while it gets well established. As you can see in the background, no deck yet. This may be a fall project.