Your yard, flowers and chicks are so beautiful! 
fuzzi's "Gardens and Chickens...and Goats? Oh My!" Journal and More Thread
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Baymule
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Lovely flowers!
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I let some acquaintances know about my upcoming retirement.
Someone asked "Won't you be bored?"
Nope. I have all my To Do projects, plus organizing the house, both sheds, emptying the attic to start with. The porch railing has some wood rot, need to replace several boards. The house interior hasn't been painted in a while.
I am still clearing out all my DH's "stuff", and am transforming his man cave into an office/study/library.
I have plans to turn the side yard (north) into a perennial pollinator garden, and have already planted three Rose of Sharon saplings to help screen the backyard from the road.
Spring to fall my flower and vegetable gardens will need attention. The chickens, too, will keep me busy year round. As planned I may get a couple goats!
This year I added baking bread to my routine, have an interest in doing some canning, and I may pick up my knitting, which I put away about 15 years ago. And I just started walking dogs at the animal shelter.
No. I don't think I'll be bored.
Someone asked "Won't you be bored?"
Nope. I have all my To Do projects, plus organizing the house, both sheds, emptying the attic to start with. The porch railing has some wood rot, need to replace several boards. The house interior hasn't been painted in a while.
I am still clearing out all my DH's "stuff", and am transforming his man cave into an office/study/library.
I have plans to turn the side yard (north) into a perennial pollinator garden, and have already planted three Rose of Sharon saplings to help screen the backyard from the road.
Spring to fall my flower and vegetable gardens will need attention. The chickens, too, will keep me busy year round. As planned I may get a couple goats!
This year I added baking bread to my routine, have an interest in doing some canning, and I may pick up my knitting, which I put away about 15 years ago. And I just started walking dogs at the animal shelter.
No. I don't think I'll be bored.
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Garden Progress
Raised bed #5
Arugula (and a couple collards)
Wakefield cabbage (and one collard plant)
Bed #3
Carrots (Paris Market and Oxheart are up)
Closeup
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Turnips and beets have sprouted!
Close up - beets
And Bed #2
Swiss chard
Turnips and peas
I have turnips ready to cook for supper tonight, yum!
Raised bed #5
Arugula (and a couple collards)
Wakefield cabbage (and one collard plant)
Bed #3
Carrots (Paris Market and Oxheart are up)
Closeup
Also #3
Turnips and beets have sprouted!
Close up - beets
And Bed #2
Swiss chard
Turnips and peas
I have turnips ready to cook for supper tonight, yum!
Baymule
Herd Master
Nothing better than fresh vegetables from the garden. I'm looking forward to wrecking out my back yard area so I can build raised beds and finally plant something here. A friend has raised beds with pavers in between them. It looks so nice, like a dream come true!
You will enjoy puttering around, tackling projects, large and small. No time limits, no boss, just you and doing whatever you want to.
You will enjoy puttering around, tackling projects, large and small. No time limits, no boss, just you and doing whatever you want to.
You will love having raised beds. We built 4 large, 1 smaller for strawberries and also used a large plastic water container for herbs. They are hip high, so nice to not bend over. We have large cement pavers my husband made from left over cement pours and we also put down landscape fabric.
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SageHill
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I've got 12 4ftx4ft raised beds - but they are only ~20 inches high, each has a separate drip irrigation line with a shut off and the entire area - even in between the beds - is lined with hardware cloth because of the massive gopher problem.
That's the way our drip is set up too. We decided we don't want to bend over as much anymore, so Dale made them tall enough to comfortably work in them.
I'm glad we don't have any more gophers here. Dale was able to eradicate them as soon as they started to show up. Haven't seen any in many years.
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I love my raised beds, they're 8'x4'Ă—16" (?), made of cedar, supposed to withstand the elements. Unfortunately, after only 2 years, between the wet climate and ants the beds are starting to come apart on the corners. I'm thinking of rebuilding them with concrete ("cinder") blocks.
In your climate the cinder blocks would be a good option. Dale used pressure treated wood on the bottoms of ours.
