My Garden Project Day 2

Day 2 working on my Garden. I finally stopped to take a photo of my brand new garden fence, from the far side of my garden. You can also see here my stack of wood from the raised garden boxes I took apart yesterday, my collection of shovels and a couple of large flower pots that I recycled from work a few years ago.



This is my 3, almost 4 year old, Teddy "the Sod Buster" Bear. Teddy spent most of the day asking to go into the garden to dig. I had a couple come to get one of our Miniature Poodle puppies today and I didn't want the Littles to get dirty before these puppy people came and went.



And here is 2 year old Cubby Bear with his shovel. Teddy now is holding the pointed ends of the broken solar lights, they are great for poking into the dirt.



Bushes are handy things when your a little boy training to be a big boy. I'm sure little boys peeing outside may shock some people but its truly better than having to stop and try not to track in dirt from the garden onto my freshly mopped floor.



Hidden treasure? I dug up a bread knife in the dirt near the kitchen's exterior wall. I don't know how it got there, but hours later it is still sitting on my kitchen window ledge. Years ago, maybe 5, I trans-planted a bunch strawberry plants by just moving them shovel by shovel without digging or planting them. They did great, but it did raise the level of the ground by about 8" (shovel depth).



The raised dirt level put it a couple inches above the house's foundation vent boxes. So this gave me a starting level that I knew for sure that I needed the ground to be. I started digging and raking level the ground next to the house a couple inches below the vents.



I just have this 2 foot by 8 foot box here to see if the ground is level. I still need to staple hardware cloth to the underside of the boxes to keep the moles out of my boxes. I filled a couple mole tunnels today while digging.



Here's the second box in place. I didn't take these two boxes apart because I can easily move them around and I'm going to fill them first with plants.



I got 10 red raspberry plants and 10 Logan raspberry bushes. I like the traditional red raspberries and the Logan raspberry canes don't have stickers.



This is a collection of trash that I've dug up and tossed out of the way. Plastic doesn't decompose very well. Some of this trash is broken solar lights that the dogs disassebled and some is old water bottles that fell into the garden from the second story window above. My husband Wes used to put bottles out his window on top of his a/c unit. Some of the bottles still have water in them. Some is scrap pieces of laminate flooring that didn't get picked up from doing the kitchen floor.



Here is the rubarb plant that I got from Shirley and planted in the summer of 2005. The end of the second box came right up next to the plant. I'm glad that I wont have to move the plant. I feel like I a got a good start on reclaiming my garden. I moved alot of dirt from the higher levels to the lower levels. I won't be posting photos of my garden again until next weekend.