animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

first harvest

Yesterday for supper, we enjoyed some vegetables and dip. I picked scallions, a cucumber, broccoli, and sugar snap peas from the garden. This was my first harvest of the year. The cucumbers are looking good–there are quite a few of them that should be ready soon. I’ll have more broccoli …

step 3 con’t

Here’s the pond with some water in it (and with the liner trimmed somewhat). Brian took the photo yesterday before we started adding stones to the pond. We’re basically putting stones around the top shelf and creating a waterfall at the upper end (the left in this particular picture). We …

garden pond: step 1

On Friday, we stared the garden pond project. The first step was to lay out the perimeter. We went with a kidney shape and the pond is approximately 8×10. Originally we were thinking 6×8, but that proved to be too small. Brian made a lot of progress digging the area …