A Hugeling We Go

Flower Bed: I now have daffodils, sedum, strawberries, bee balm, rhubarb, and chives up and identifiable. My little firewood triangles, rings and rectangles are spreading.

The plants seem to be happy with the wood chip and bark mulch. Or at least without the weeds trying to choke them all out.

Why didn't I think of that before?  Still a lot of ground to cover.

Forest Garden:

Not much to look at yet. All four zone 2 apple trees, planted last year, have leaves budding. One only on the lowest branch though. One of my four year old trees, started from seed, is missing. The other is budding.  The shack at the back was the previous owner's goat house.  We built the stand a couple of years ago for our goats to play on.  Our goats absolutely hated this area.  It's a nice spot for a forest garden though.

The main rhubarb patch got a face lift. #1 started cleaning out the chicken coop. I surrounded the rhubarb patch with branches, and he unloaded the hay/manure mix on top.

There's lots of manure still to come, so I made a few more piles of branches for him to unload on top of. These are very green piles- green manure, green branches. They'll sit and compost until next year.

Garden:

I actually took these pictures yesterday, but didn't post. I put another row of logs on top afterwards. Husband is home this weekend, so I have big plans for him getting it filled with compost, and plowing the garden. It's actually kind of early to plow, but I don't want to miss getting it plowed because he'll be working every weekend very soon, as construction season picks up.  The bed isn't quite as high as I wanted it, only about two feet instead of three.  I figure I can add onto it next spring if it's too low.

It's 14X3 paces. About 21X4.5 feet. Short legs.

I saw the first bee of the year today!  Go bumbles, go!  The daffodils should flower in the next day or two, if the weather holds.  10°C. -3°C overnight.