So with spring came one of my favorite things!! Yard Work!!! I love to be outside working in my yard and I have a whole acre to work on. I was so excited to see that 17 raspberry plants were alive and growing. I had transplanted them from the Cedar Hills Garden the first spring after we bought the house. That would have been the spring of 2017. I wasn't sure how well they would do. Mom kept them water for me the first summer and this was the second spring for them here. And most of them had survived.
I then added some other vegetables: tomatoes, onions, peppers, squash. Everything froze except the onions the next week, despite covering them. We are at almost 6000 ft in elevation. That makes for a pretty short growing season. June 1 to October 1 on average. So I planted them again. They still haven't done well. Except the onions, they seem to be going great guns. The tomato plants were eaten down to about 2 inches by the deer. I finally covered in the end of the tomato cages with another cage so they couldn't get their head in the end to eat them. It is a whole new ball game to grow a garden here. It will take a while to get it down.
The field had grown really tall last fall because we had nothing to mow it with when it did get that tall. It was about 3-4 feet tall. Last summer I had tried to keep a few paths mowed so we could get to the irrigation faucet and move the sprinkler for it but that was about it. It was hard to keep up when we didn't live here yet. This spring I had been cutting back the weeds by hand breaking them off on my hands and knees and then raking them. It finally was just too much to handle. So off we go to the local Tractor Supply Store and came home with these:
This is like a DR trimmer. Heavy duty weed whacker that you walk behind.
Needless to say, Perry was in heaven. It sure made the job much easier. It went from looking like this:
TO THIS:
Happy Man!!
At the beginning of the first summer after we bought the house, my Mom saw a local ad for 1.5 irrigation water shares for Fountain Green. We quickly bought them up! Expensive but a necessity with an acre. This makes it so we can water about 9 hours a day at no further cost. City water is too expensive to water the whole acre with. Everyone here told me we would never be able to buy water shares. They are limited and very hard to get. People are still amazed that we found some. They say they have lived here for 25 - 35 years and never been able to get some. Guess the Lord was watching out for us again. (Him and Mom!!)
I have also been working on reclaiming some of the flower beds. Originally there were flower beds around the whole perimeter of the yard and house. Now, I like to week but not that much!! The yard is just weeds at this point and a defunct sprinkler systerm. It needs to be redone but that is on next summer's project list. However, I can't resist a few flower beds. There used to be an English garden with a paved area and big planter and lots of rose and other bushes. All dead!! So I am pulling the pavers out to make borders for the flower beds I am keeping.
This one used to have a half circle type raised flower bed constructed of poorly cemented together bricks with this rose bush next to it. I pulled the raised one out and will transplant a few more of the rose bushes around the yard into it.
Well, that is about all I have done this year. Just have to maintain those for now!
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