T Stands for a Garden Project

        Hi everyone. Happy new week to you. And hello to you if you're stopping by Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog  for T Day. 

       Warning, this isn't the  longest post, but there is a bit of food and also a snake photo, in case you don't like snakes.  

      Last week I was busy with more yard work.  I  bought some raised garden beds that needed to be assembled.  Assembling them was the easy part; moving the heavy bags of soil to fill them was a work out.

      My veggie garden is being partially moved to this new spot. I'm doing that because  my other veggie garden is now only half sunny and therefore doesn't have a lot of planting room. I have a  sugar maple tree that has since grown up on one side of the garden and shades the area. It's too pretty of a tree to cut down.  I still use that garden, but it will be nice to have some very sunny spots for those veggies that like the almost full daylight.

   You might notice in the above photo that the new garden beds are sitting on sand, but in the background there is stone/gravel. Last fall I had a dump truck load of stone/gravel delivered because we needed it for under the greenhouse (which we put up last fall). I still had a lot of gravel left, but even last fall I knew I wanted to put gravel in the area around the greenhouse, not just under it.

   Besides building my garden beds last week, I also had my husband use his tractor to move some gravel to that area. He had the easy job on the tractor. I once again had a work out spreading the gravel. 😏  I didn't mind because this was a job I wanted done. I don't think my husband cared about it, although he did enjoy playing on his tractor. 😉

   

      It wasn't the easiest place to dump the gravel because the hubby had to drive the tractor up this small but steep ridge which doesn't really  show  in the photo.  You might be able to make out the shrub under the bucket of the tractor. That shrub  blocks the drop off. If you look carefully you can see my husband is dumping gravel over the shrub. There is also the electric box  that I use for the electric fence that goes around the beehives that he had to stay clear of.  But the hubby was successful. He got all the gravel dumped without ruining the shrub, hitting the electric box nor tipping over the tractor . 👍

        Here's my finished area. Once we get some rain it will wash the dust off the new gravel, and it won't look so splotchy.  I'm excited to have this done. It looks more finished.  And now the snake that lived in the weeds that used to be in this area and who used to surprise me too often, will be more visible in advance if he's laying on the gravel.

But he did surprise me yesterday as he was crawling on the deck that's at the other end of this area.

     Also last week I needed to get some more bags of soil for my beds so I was heading to Portsmouth (New Hampshire) because there is a store there that had their 40 quart/big bags of soil on sale. I wasn't sure what day I was going to go buy the soil, but on last Thursday I got both a text and a phone call from my husband in the morning (he was at work) wanting to know if I was coming down. His  big work project was finally wrapped up, and he had time to go have a sort of leisurely lunch. That sounded good to me, so that's where my drink for T day photos come from.

     I had a tuna melt with onion rings. I was disappointed the waiter never asked what kind of bread I wanted, and then I thought  that it came with marbled rye so I didn't say anything. However it came with toasted white. The white bread was homemade so it wasn't bad, but this sandwich is still better on marbled rye. And you can see my diet coke in the red glass.

 

    That's all for this post. Hopefully in the next week I'll get the rest of my plants and get them in those beds. It's actually right on schedule to plant in my area, as we can still have frost right up through the end of May. 

    Have a wonderful T day and week ahead.