Still working 

I'm leaving here for the month of May, so I've been trying had to get this place garden ready for my wife before I go, and that means doing some things to keep the deer from eating the stuff we plant. That being the case, I've been continuing to install fencing. Now, we don't have a lot of deer here. In fact, the only two I've seen are the yearlings that live on the wooded lot next door to us, but they still have mouths, so up goes the deterrents. Yesterday I started building the enclosure around the second set of garden boxes. No individual doors on these, unlike the other two raised beds, just a tall fence around them. In the morning I headed to town and got two 4x4 posts, two 80lb bags of redi-mix concrete, and a half dozen t-posts, then I came home and stuck all of that in the ground. Today I'll start stringing the wire. I have a partial roll of fencing left over from the last project, but I'm not certain it'll reach all the way around the new enclosure. I'll start with that, and if it's not enough, I'll get another roll of the fencing and just splice the two together. Yep, more work, but waste not, want not. 

While I was getting fencing stuff, I also picked up two apricot trees, and when I got home I stuck those in the ground. With the addition of those two, it gives us about 14 fruit trees, and that's a pretty good start. We have plans for a lot more fruit trees, and berry bushes, but that will all take time. My wife has informed me, in no uncertain terms, that one of the things I'll be working for this summer will be a big freeze drier. Between that, and all the canning she's planning to do, we should end up with a good supply of various forms of fruit.

The day before yesterday, I put the second coat of stain on the new planter boxes, filled them with some of the bulk potting mix I had delivered, stuck a flower plant in each one, and set them out in a couple locations. I really want to start adding color to this place, and these boxes are step one. As I clean out the useless bushed under the cedar trees around the front yard. I'll add in there flowering shrubs, such as azaleas, and we'll end up with lots of nice color all around that area. I thing it'll make a huge difference.