Spring Projects

Here are dads new boots.

We are putting in posts to keep out the deer from the grapes.  Later we hope to move our blueberries and raspberries into this area as well.  It did not happen in time this year.

Here are the grapes.  Three table grape transplants from the Turners and two more were added from Al's garden center.

The new years blossoms are finely here, ya.

Here is a Honeycrisp apple tree.  It was an impulse purchase, they are the best apples ever.  We put down weed fabric and a thick layer of hog fuel (wood chips) to help hold moisture and deter weeds.  The wire cages are to keep the deer from eating all the new buds off of them and rubbing on the trunks.  Those deer are why we can't have anything nice, well at least one of the reasons.  However it is about time to put in for our controlled hunts, look out!

Evan holding a post.  He had injured a finger, note the blue tape, but he could still hold a post plumb while the dirt and concrete was backfilled.

Clipping the chickens wings so they can't fly over the gate.  In our attempt to keep the chickens in their new pen we clipped one wing of all the offending birds.  Unfortunately this did not prevent them from going under the fence at one location, but we now have that remedied.

We got some pigs again.  Aren't they cute??  They were smaller than the ones we got last year.  We were not excited about the white ones, but that is what was available, and we are pretty sure they all taste the same.  But I we had read that they could potentially get sunburned and we don't want to have lather them up with Banana Boat every day.  There are plenty of shady spots in their pasture so hopefully they will take cover when needed.

Working in the garden.  Tearing things out and weeding.

Grace likes helping out side.

We added four yards of compost/topsoil mix to part of the garden and will do the same with the rest later.  With the hitch on the tractor we can tow the trailer around to the garden and back it right through the gate, which makes it easy to unload.

While dad is working the rototiller I keep getting stuck.  Big red and little red working away.