Belated Garden Sunday

Life has been crazy-crazy! Guest-Author-Girl-Child here, in the midst of dead week and prepping for finals. After this next week, I am officially in my last year of university!! YES.

Anyway, here is a belated "Sunday" post of the projects mum and I did last weekend. 

The sun has come out and STAYED out these last few days. Gorgeous weather just begged for some veggie planting and mum, having finished her national board projects (HECK YES!) reactivated her green thumbs and joined me in the garden.

You might remember our raised garden bed project from before, I filled it partially with a mixture of compost and peat a few weekends back. Together we filled it the rest of the way in preparation for some new veggies mum picked up as well as some seedlings I grew in the greenhouse. 

Mum arranged the new veggies by future size and spaced them accordingly. Tomatoes will be tall, so we put them in the back so they won't block the sunlight from the other veggies. Those are spaced about 8-12 inches apart. In front of them are peppers, spaced 4-6 inches apart. And at the front of the box, are radishes, spaced 2-4 inches apart. Once everything was arranged to her liking, we took off their shoes and got them comfy in the veggie bed! 

Completed! We filled in the open areas with the seedlings I grew from the green house (more tomatoes, peppers, and radishes as well as some carrots and a mystery plant). Mum pushed in some of her tomato cages, ready for when they get a little bigger to make sure they have the structure they need. 

A lot of the seed packages in the garden shed are old or of unknown origin, so mum and I made some temporary planters to test them out. We labeled them (much better than I did  last time!) and we'll see what sprouts. If nothing sprouts in a week or two, we'll know those seed packets are done for and toss 'em. If they grow, we'll repot them and let them thrive in the green house until our next veggie box is ready. 

Project 2 we started was a door for our new fence. Project puppy-time meant fencing off a good section of the property and we cut a preliminary section out to attach a door. As I have the most experience with power tools, mum measured and labeled the wood and I cut. 

For the record, we did not cut on the bed of my truck. That is a major saftey no-no. This was just a perfect photo opportunity while mum went downhill to research how to adjust the blade allowance. I took woodshop and metalshop in college, and the experience is totally worth it. We covered table saws, skilsaws, jigsaws, lathes, mig welders, tig welding, and oxy-acetylene torches - all are excellent tools to have a good know-how about. In any case- the door we were trying to build was like this one:

This is one dad and the boy-child put together for the dog kennel they built. We picked up an extra hardware set (hinges, frames, handle, and lock) from our local hardware store and laid everything out. 

The fencing seen here is the bit cut from the actual fence, I think it's a smidge to small to actually cover the door frame so we're contemplating using spare hardware cloth. 

We ended up not finishing the door project that day, ran out of daylight and 1/8th inch drill bits! We called it a night when the one we had broke off in the uncooperative wood panel. 

We picked up some more today, and hope to finish the project in time for the next Sunday post!