More garden work

I started working in the garden early. It was a beautiful bright, sun-shiny day! Mary enjoyed the sun too!

I cleaned out the last of the compost from the right-most bin, and put down 24 inches of grass, leaves, and chopped up pieces of old bush back in. That got it ready for starting the new compost cycle. The plant material becomes the biological sponge, that will keep anything from leaching into the ground water over the next 2 years. We'll add to the right pile for the next year, then let it rest for then next year. The old left bin is full, and has now been "retired" for the next year. Next April, we will have a huge bin of compost ready to put on the gardens.

After we took Samuel to his dad's house, we noticed that Mary was too hungry to go to church, so we went back home for lunch. We had a lovely meal together on the back patio, enjoying the sun. After lunch we went to Clement's Hardware. We needed fencing materials for Mary's potato beds, as well as something for the thornless blackberries to grow on. We wound up getting some 6 foot steel posts, and stringing wire on them to support the blackberries.

So we spent the beautiful afternoon preparing potato beds, building the blackberry supports and generally working in the gardens. I put the clothesline back up straight after it had been blown down 2 weeks ago. It was a wonderful afternoon.

Miriam stayed over at Tori's place last night, but Tori was so tired, she fell asleep early. Miriam enjoyed her sister time, and we got to see Tori when she dropped Miriam back home. Tori seems to be doing extremely well.

Samuel had a camp out with scouts Friday night, and didn't get much sleep, since there were some very loud scouts that wouldn't let the rest get to sleep. I hope he had a good time!

We got another load of manure to fertilize the gardens, but that was around dinner time, so I haven't had a chance to do any spreading with it. Later, I guess.

It has been so nice outside, I had the scooter out after dinner. I'm planning on riding it to work tomorrow!