#trellis bed

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Trellis bed progress, and the last potatoes are in

Okay, so I did finally make it outside yesterday to do some work. I may have been mentally drained with all the BS going on with our vandal, but not going out was actually making me feel worse. It was later than I normally would have gone out, but the weather was still good, and there was still enough light. For a while, anyhow. My first task was to fill the wheelbarrow with material to add to…

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Trellis bed progress: first end cap done

Finally! I was able to bring over my tools and equipment, which I just keep in the utility wagon now, over to the garden and get a bit more done on the first trellis bed. The first step was to cut the two logs set aside into 4′ long pieces. I know for sure I’ll need two per end, but these logs are thinner than the ones in the side walls, so I cut extra just in case. Before putting one of the…

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Trellis bed progress: stripping

The plan for today had been to get the ends onto the trellis bed. Just before I headed outside, however, the power went out. All I’ve got is an electric chainsaw, so cutting logs to size was out. Which was fine. I needed to strip the logs of bark, first. I can see into the house from where I’m working, so I could keep an eye out for any lights back on again, letting me know the power was…

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Trellis bed shift

I’ve been analyzing that side wall of the trellis bed with the bowed log on the bottom, and decided we needed to make a change. The plan had been to cut joins into the horizontal logs and the vertical posts, then secure them in place. There will be four of posts, about 6′ apart but, the more I looked at it, the more I realized that in order for the posts to be in line with each other, I’d have…

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Trellis bed progress

I headed out to check the garden as the day warmed up, to get a better idea of how much frost damage there was. As things warm up, the damaged/dead parts turns a lot darker, which showed me that the tomato plants in the main garden area did get killed off. Not the ones in the old kitchen garden, though! The melon plants might make it. Lots of dead leaves, but not the entire plants. Tonight,…

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Trellis bed progress, and we have a soot sprite

Since I ended up driving around again today, once I was home to stay, I took advantage of the cooler temperatures and calmer winds to work on the trellis bed. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Re-Farmer (@the.refarmer) One larger base log was ready. The next step was to use a garden fork to loosen the soil from one marker to the other. Aside from pulling out as many weeds and…

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Painting and log prep progress

My trip to pick up a parcel ended up taking longer than expected. It was a Purolator delivery, which now delivers to our post office, if we use their address, and we pick it up from there. Other times, we’ve had to go to town to pick it up, or to the slightly further town my mother lives in. Not this time! For some reason, they decided to drop it off at another, even further, town to the north…