Still On The Green Side Of The Sod

Well, I'm still here.... alive and kickin' Jesus didn't come for a visit.... too bad.

While everyone was waiting for the second coming Teapot and I got to work... we have been digging in the sh-- and dirt. I am putting in a fairly elaborate area of raised beds for beet and carrot and lettuce and beans and peas.We have always had a big garden since we moved to this house but as Teapot and I age and our knees and things start to creek  we felt the need to down size our garden area. We are taking about a third of our garden and we are going to keep it for potatoes... but we are taking soil and poo from the other 2/3 of the garden for my raised beds. It will be easier to back the truck up to the beds and water the plants than it is to water a huge garden. We will also be able to maintain the potatoes with a hose from the house, but since we have to haul water it is something that has to be well planned in order to get any yield worth mentioning. Since we've had alpacas and sheep we have had our animals in on the fenced garden area and they have fertilized it very well. There are some areas where there is three inches of old poo on top of he soil. Needless to say that since I have a bum foot and the only thing I can fit on my foot is a pair of crocs and since I don't wear socks, you can imagine my feet by the time I come in at night... suffice it to say that they are very dirty.

We have had two days of thundery weather and showers which have penetrated the ground. I am hoping this trend will continue well into the summer. Wet ground is so needed here. Teapot and I managed to find a little time for a slow (very slow) one kilometre walk down through the bush in the hot part of the day. Indeed, the Prairie Crocuses... (aka wood crocuses, or forest crocuses) are out in full regalia. There is no sign of any of the other forest flowers yet. Though there are lots of mushrooms on the forest bed. By the time I got home my foot was once again good and swollen so I got to take a break while Teapot carried on working on the raised beds. Once it cooled down tonight and my foot stopped swelling I had to have a go at digging again. And so the transfer of soil goes from the old veggie garden to the new raised beds.

Teapot just came in and it is time for a cup of tea and a few supper dishes to be washed. We are both tired and look forward to an early night as Bailey kept us up with some erratic bad behaviour.  (Just as I was starting to think she was settling in!)

Here's hoping your having a nice May long too...