Garden/yard work...

We did a bunch of work in the yard today. Laurie raked out most of the flower beds while I removed the soil from the "soon-to-be" strawberry bed in anticipation of moving in some fresh composted soil. After I finished with the raised bed, I collected up the raked debris from the gardens and made a new compost pile by layering the debris with the sod and soil we removed from underneath the chicken coop. Laurie also worked on pruning the pears in the orchard - quite a feat with Max in a backpack! I did battle with the monster rose in the maroon and white garden, pruning it back so we can move it out by the road where it hopefully won't be a problem that it is so amazingly aggressive.

I've been slowly picking at clearing all the garden debris from the "big veggie" garden in the field, I haven't made much progress, but it's something!

Front flower garden after raking

Container herb garden (hasn't been cleaned up yet)

Blue and yellow garden (hasn't been cleaned up yet)

Porch garden (left)

Porch garden (center)

Porch garden (right)

Maroon and white garden

Pruned rose in maroon and white garden

Back garden

Garlic bed in the back garden

Scotch Elm

Unweeded berry patch

Raspberry patch

Partially pruned pear tree

Strawberry bed (post excavation)

New compost piles (front pile is soil from the strawberry bed and back pile is a layered mix of debris from raking and the sod from the coop)

Veggie garden in the field