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15 Feb ’12
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So I had learned my lessons from the previous year and ordered 8 yards of top soil instead to save some money
There was no way in heck I was going to wheelbarrow all that around so I had my friend bring down his tractor.
and we started hauling dirt
15 Feb ’12
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So I had learned my lessons from the previous year and ordered 8 yards of top soil instead to save some money
There was no way in heck I was going to wheelbarrow all that around so I had my friend bring down his tractor.
and we started hauling dirt
15 Feb ’12
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Since we couldn't get the tractor through out get in the fence, we just started dumping it over the fence and raking it out
It was going quick
15 Feb ’12
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I picked up some 1/2 in and 3/4 in cpvc pipe
And several rolls of plastic and some soil to top off the beds with.
I filled the low spots in the beds.
15 Feb ’12
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I broke out my chop saw to cut the 3/4 inch pvc
I just spaced the chop saw about 2 feet away from shed to get a rough cut for length.
and proceeded to cut a pile of sleeves
I took my sledge and hammered the pipes into the ground around the perimeter of the beds.
I spaced them every two feet and raked out the soil as I went
I left the half inch pipe the full ten feet and slit then down into the sleeves I had hammered into the ground
To be honest, I would cut the sleeves out (which I did on my other beds). As long as your soil is thawed enough you can just shove the 1/2 pipe right into the ground. The sleeves allow some play back and forth, and if they aren't driven the same depth, it can throw it off when you put the plastic on
15 Feb ’12
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I had a few other projects to to around the house, so I had a pile of 2x12's delivered
There were 16 footers so I trimmed 4 feet off the end of each one, so I could make a 4x12 bed with 2 boards
I deck screwed the boards together to form the frames and continued them around the perimeter of our fence
I took everything I had left over in the compost and threw it into the bottom of one of the beds
I started hauling some old firewood I had to try out hand at hugelkultur, there is a thread on hear called sepp holzer which goes more into detail
and started filling the beds
It was a good days work, the garden area was starting to come together, I was excited to start the garden
and the next day I got slapped back to reality lol
15 Feb ’12
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So the saying in Maine goes, if you don't like the weather, wait an hour. Two days later it was 50 degrees out and the snow had all melted. I broke out the rolled plastic I had bought and rolled it out to get a rough length.
I draped it over the hoop houses and used some spare grade stakes to hold down the loose end.
I rolled the grade stakes up in the loose end of plastic to help temporarily hold the sheet from blowing away
I had some spring clamps so I used them to secure the ends.
I used some chunks of firewood to lay around them to hold the rest of the plastic down.
I then proceeded to haul some more firewood to finish filling the bottom of the beds.
15 Feb ’12
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A couple of days later I was able to get the beds totally filled and used some screws and some twine and laid out a quick grid
I had been monitoring the temp in my year old beds and was quite happy with the temps we were holding
I decided that since I essentially had a mini greenhouse, not only would I start the beds in the hoop houses, I would start some seedlings for the other beds. So I went and grabbed some pvc pipe
and proceeded to cut 3 inch pieces, I was going to use these as my seedling starters
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