Category: gardening & landscaping

As promised:

A lot has been accomplished this week. As previously noted, the stream was finished earlier in the week. Later in the week (Thursday, maybe) I went to Westwood Garden Haven and picked up some fish and some plants for the landscaping. Yesterday after work, I went to Ray’s Nursery and …

I’ve been growing potatoes for a few years now, but this year was my best harvest yet. For starters, no critters found my potato patch. Secondly, I managed to not damage any potatoes in the harvest. The sad thing is that it’s almost August already. Between pulling my garlic the …

Here’s a pic of the completed pond. I finished laying the rock along the stream last night. The stream part turned out ok, but it wasn’t exactly what I hoped for. I think the looks of it will improve quite a bit once the landscaping is done. Up next: fish!

We haven’t made much progress with the pond lately, but that’s about to change tomorrow. We ran out of fieldstone, so we were pretty much at a standstill. But, Brian went to his parent’s today and got some more rocks for me (they are replacing a fieldstone path with pavers), …