Gardening - Before and After

It is amazing what an hour of hard work can do to a garden. This is the before picture, and below is the after the work have completed. So when berries comes, it will not be blackberries I will enjoy from the garden.

As you can see from the next two pictures, I still have plenty of work ahead. I still have about 7 more bushes to rescue from the weeds.


You may have wondered, how much weeds did I take out. I have a box underneath, but you can hardly see it, but it really helped me when I put it all into the yard waste box.

More gardening opportunities

Yay for gardening. My sweet Katie girl, is tending her special onion plant she has planted herself. And she is very proud of it.

Here is our welcoming berry, the strawberries that grows right by our front door. An every one's favorite when we come home from our many outings. The Easter bunny... well, that must be an old picture that I found in in the computer.
(Not really, we just like him out there... hidden like an Easter egg).
Maybe there is one more Easter egg hidden out there.
Are we trying to grow delicious blueberries, or is it Blackberry we are hoping for this year. Well, we have a much better place to pick the Blackberries, so they have go, and hopefully the blueberries will be just as delicious as previous years. This year I will be wiser, and not give them all to the blue birds, so a net will be hung soon.

This doesn't look like much now... but come fall, there will be tons of grapes just right for the picking. I really want to make the vines climb towards to house on a arbor. Time will show if that happens.

Whisky is not on the menu, but as you can see, we have a handful of barrel ready to be planted. And we have some plants to go in, but we're not quite sure what to have in them...

Plants or veggies? That is the question!

The sandbox

The joy of the garden for the kids... a sandbox. It has been so loved, that all the sand had vanished... and this is how it looks now, after the second load of sand has been put into it. We will be putting two more loads of sand in it, as that is what we will get free.

We have a quarry close to our house. For the longest time, Sam wanted to go there... so a year after we first contacted them for the possibility to have a tour Gordon, one of the head guys there took us... and that was interesting! We wanted to buy some sand from them. Since we don't have our truck registered, and I did not think that we needed that much sand, we would just use our minivan and two 11 gal storage totes to haul the sand in. To make the long story short, we had to go to a different place. And they started out charging us $10 for the two tubs. We thought this was a little big excessive, so we talked to Ben, the owner.
The first thing he said when he saw how much we had compared to what we paid was: "Oh GOSH, You can have the next three loads for free. Just tell Jack that Ben told you to tell him." And that is how we still have two loads left! YAY

I was thinking for about a 10th of a second that I could take out the sand from the sandbox so it could be a more accurate picture of what it looked like. But no, I'm not that desperate to be Mr. Compulsive blogger man.

Vegi Garden in Progress.

Wow, this is how the garden boxes had ended after a year without any tending. Well, that is not completely true, as I, Rune, weeded they out in preparation to get plants in.... but, that the only plants that ended up in those were weeds and a few potatoes. That actually sprouted, and gave us a tiny harvest.... You can see the great harvest below. This is how it ended after a few HOURS of hard WORK. Now the only thing that is left is to fill this one with soil, and then... I have to do the other one (the one I used as "the before picture"), find the seeds, and plant them and continue all summer watering so the harvest can be enjoyed.

Did you notice the raspberry canes in the back ground? Well, hopefully they will yield some yummy berries too. Just a little weeding in that bed too.


Here is the garden box that already has given this years first harvest... it should have been last falls harvest, but we did not think there would be anything there since the frost came, and the plants disappeared, and weeds enjoyed the good soil.
Here is the infamous harvest.. of course we ate some of the yummy potatoes before we took the picture.. who can wait for a picture when you have yummy potatoes strait from the dirt. It's so good, you can even eat the dirt.