Our Back Garden

OK, so I went out and snapped some shots of what is here today. As you can see from the photo's, there is still lots of work to be done. Since we moved in, we had our third daughter (actually, she was born three weeks before we moved in!), and we've been busy since then with the girls, their activities, me selling on Ebay, etc. I've always wanted to do more outside, but time and money have been short. So consider this blog a starting point if you will. A tool for me to document our progress.

This is what I call the back garden. Starting on the right side, you will see the dogs yard which is fenced in with the privacy fence. In front of the fence, I divided my rhubarb plants and have 5 of them growing spaced out between the gate on the left, and the corner of the fence on the right. Then we have our two back veggie garden beds. They are each 8'x24'. The upper bed needed some repair work that I just did as a temporary fix this year. Next year we plan to combine the beds and support them with small rock walls. Then to the left are our two raspberry lines. The one on the left is 2 yrs old, the one on the right, we planted about a month ago from the off shoots of the first bed. To the left of those is our blueberry patch. I recently planted the last 6 bushes on the far side of this bed. To the left of the blueberry patch is a new picket fence we put in last May (2007). We have a new flower bed in front of it that still needs lots of work. The the left of the picket fence our are chicken coops and the kids playscape. The girls are in a Poultry 4-H project and their smaller banty's that they use for fit and show are in the smaller coop on the right. The main coop houses the majority of our flock. I think we have 19 birds at the moment. Last, if you go back to the right of the picket fence, you will see our apple trees. We have 10 of them, just finished filling them in with 3 new ones this year. Beyond you will see an empty 5 acre lot. Hopefully no one ever builds there! And that is the back garden.