Spring Fever!

Spring has come to our little valley town. The bulbs and almond trees are blooming all over. We've been feeling it too and have been outside working on the yard every moment outside of work and classes. It's slightly slow going, but definitely rewarding. We bought ten yards of soil and and have been moving it into the places it needs to go. Which is the front flower bed and in the back for the produce garden.

We have so many plans for this place! Little by little we've been getting them done. When we first moved in the grass had all died from getting no water in the summer heat and was covered by years of decomposing leaves. It was straight dirt. However, the winter rains have brought back the grass and we've been maintaining it well as it fills out. We also had a large flower bed, or at least it had been at some point. It had been filled in with gravel and looked terrible! When we first moved in we raked up the gravel and got rid of it. We finally filled it with soil just last week and I seeded it over with several pollinator flower mixes. That bed will be my play ground for flowers and herbs.

In the back yard it was a leaf and stick covered dirt lot. since July we have raked and slowly picked up stick into a pile and we still don't have all the sticks up! We were able to get some soil back there already to put in two strawberry beds and just finished putting in the starts we bought. We plan to make an asparagus bed next to the strawberries and then 14 annual beds to grow other produce. We are going to put a little fence to split up the garden from the other side of the yard as a mental barrier for our dog (he like to eat small corn plants) and for the chickens. I found this cute little fence at Lowe's and Tom is going to make a little gate for it so we can get the wheelbarrow through.

On the other side of the fence we are going to have a "lawn". I bought a poultry seed mix and plan to seed that over the backyard as a duel purpose lawn and pasture for the chickens. We are going to finish cleaning up the sticks and then seed that in. The stick have been giving us some warmth during this last sudden frost in our fireplace. It's been great to get rid of the all at once, because there's no way all of that is going to fit in the yard waste bin.

That's what has been going on here in my little home. I'll post an update when we make more progress =]. Do any of you have spring project going? See you next time!