When doing construction in our garden, we like to use recycled materials to the greatest extent possible. We have 19 large (heavy!) concrete squares given to us by a neighbor. We used others to create a retaining wall which was detailed in a previous blog post. Today's work was the construction of a new garden bed/cold frame which we will use as a space to grow greens during the winter months after growing peas this summer.
I first dug up the area we are using, added amendments, and tilled them in. Today we laid out the bed, dug its edges, and began the process of setting its boundaries with the recycled concrete blocks. We will be placing 4x4's at the corners, and redwood deck boards, also recycled, between the corners to construct a hinged cold frame with greenhouse fiberglass. Each of the concrete blocks we are using weigh a ton (that is what it feels like) and we transported them to the site of their use on a hand truck. Here are pictures of today's activity. I will update this project on this blog until its completion.
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| The new bed |
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| Setting the first blocks |
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| front wall |
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| What we completed today |
We have had large numbers of hummingbirds around lately. This evening this one stood still long enough for me to get a photo. They are great fun to watch, and they are quite communicative with the local humans.
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| An entertaining Rufous (or perhaps Allen's) hummingbird |
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