Busy Weekend

 We had a project filled weekend. Although it makes us nervous to start planting before Memorial Day up here, we couldn't help but want to take advantage of the unusual warm weather this weekend - 70 and 80 degrees when we would potentially still have snow on the ground.

After spending the last two years creating all the beds around the house and planting trees and foundation shrubs - we are now filling in with smaller shrubs and lots of perennials. The perennial nursery that we like to go to in Walton won't open for another couple weeks so we picked up shrubs from Lowes on the

commute upstate.  I planted Blue Star Juniper and King's Gold Cypress and  Rhododendron  and then weeded for hours while Tim started another raised stone bed.

Tim has been building raised stone beds along the driveway for the vegetable gardens.  The area gets direct sunlight all day and we have stone everywhere so although it's a lot of work - we have plenty of it and we just have to have manure and mulch delivered and dumped so we can fill the beds.  We will line the beds with recycled newspaper, catalogs and magazines and then fill with soil.  We used the cattle metal fencing last year for climbing beans and tomatoes and they are sturdy and easy to use.  Plus, the birds love to sit on top of the metal fencing all summer. We will continue to build the beds along the driveway and then our next big project is two large sloped areas that we need to terrace with stone as well.