First Week Of Spring

Here in our little corner of the world the first day Spring came and went as any other day would at this time of year. 

We are here..Where is Spring? 

 Sunny yet cloudy, windy and cold with even a few snow flurries whipping around our heads, but I did go outside and take stock of my little plot of heaven and what I found was it is in a dismal state of affairs! 
Everything in sight is dirty, the ground is either a muddy mess or frozen block of ice. Where we had tree's trimmed by the local utilities company a few months back,  branches laying all over are waiting to be cut and burned in the cool spring night bonfires.

Pond screaming "HELP ME!"

 The pond is screaming " Help Me"  as it awaits new life, as something made a meal our pond fish last fall.
Everything is so bare and is awaiting warmth as well as helping hand to regain it's former glory of last summer. 

I love it!!

Our little "Harbor Freight" Greenhouse is finally up, a Christmas gift from my son Tony. We built it in the few warm days we had before the winter chill returned and brought the spring winds with it.. Now that we have experienced the wind we are going to tweak the design a bit and add vents to the gable's both at the front and back of the greenhouse to help with the wind flow, as it does not have anywhere to go but out, taking panels with it! Also we are going to add clear caulking to aid in making the panels fit smoother and adding to the integrity of the greenhouse. Behind it we are putting a panel of six foot privacy fence as a three fold system:
1. To add privacy to our garden, Duh! 
2. As a wind break.
3. To aid in holding up a anti animal net over the greenhouse and our little garden plot as we feed the birds but want to deter them from eating our food as well as their own!  

Our next project after that will be constructing the raised beds and making some awesome soil to fill them with as last year we found out the hard way, bagged topsoil is not a stand alone mix for growing anything but a few weeds!

We hope you like what you read and will continue this journey with us.  Have a wonderful day.