You Can't Fool Mother Nature

Mother Nature is a demanding mom, and has a way of hijacking the plane of intentions. Take a look at the picture at the last posting that shows the corner of the garden fence and the edge of the creek. It shows about 3' between the post and the edge. Well, that's down to about 18" now. We decided that it would be better to relocate the entire garden up near the house rather than lose fence posts, wire fencing and the blueberry plants to the creek. So instead of building this week, Ed spent all three days on the tractor pulling posts, rolling wire and digging up trees with the backhoe. The good news.... the weather was spectacularly beautiful all week.

He dug up two apple trees, two cherry trees, a guava bush, a mimosa tree and twelve blueberry bushes, brought them all up here to the house, redug holes I had marked out on the ground, and replanted all the plants. As far as I can tell, there were no casualties. Alot of dirt fell off one of the apple trees, but I'm hoping it was dormant enough to not notice. Bare root, right? Time will tell.

In the pasture garden, the posts were set four feet into the ground, and strung with eight foot wire to keep the elk out. So far...we haven't had elk in the front yard..only deer, so we won't have to put the monster fence up. We also filled every fence post hole with sand down in the pasture so no elk would step in one, sink up to their chest and snap a leg..that would just be too ugly to even think about.

Ed went back to work this morning (to rest up) and I spent most of the day shaking dirt out of sod strips (chickens love that grass), and moving benches in place. It's amazing what you can move around with leverage and a hand truck. That cedar bench and log ends weigh a ton!

I still have to break up sod for the strawberry patch and the raspberries.You can see those marked out in white. It'll probably take me another week..maybe two.. to get those in, depending on you-know-who...Mother Nature.