flowerbug
Garden Master
"got Marigold?" i'm assuming that is a horse helper, but perhaps by cart or carry bags? it's ok, early yet in the day, no caffiene or chocolate yet. 
smiling in the garden. leaning on a rake.
i was walking yesterday back in and noticed how one of my very first projects here was doing. it's almost all falling over now. i built a small cement wall and used large tiles in one side as decorations. with one side being dirt and the other having a few covered drain tubes put under the area to help get the standing water out of there. the wall was meant to help block some water flows we had from flash flooding. it had no footing and wasn't down very deep or very thick so the frost heaves over the past 15-20yrs has pushed it all over.
i have or had pictures somewhere of me digging that trench and putting all that in, leaning on a shovel or rake. i also including a sort of box of cement sides where various underground drainage hoses to go into. the box was also too thin and unreinforced and has long since fallen apart, cracked and caved in. one of my hoped for projects over the next several years is to remove all that broken up cement and fill that whole drainage system in after putting down a few more tubes (they take up space besides helping move the water. which means i'd have to move less fill to cover it up. still daydreaming about that project...
frozen nights still. this is being a long spring. ok here. i'm stacking up daydreams in between snow squalls. perhaps in a week or two it will finally be warm enough to do some work on the garden shed or a few of the gardens.
p.s. i think in that picture he looks like @Collector 's twin brother...
smiling in the garden. leaning on a rake. i was walking yesterday back in and noticed how one of my very first projects here was doing. it's almost all falling over now. i built a small cement wall and used large tiles in one side as decorations. with one side being dirt and the other having a few covered drain tubes put under the area to help get the standing water out of there. the wall was meant to help block some water flows we had from flash flooding. it had no footing and wasn't down very deep or very thick so the frost heaves over the past 15-20yrs has pushed it all over.
i have or had pictures somewhere of me digging that trench and putting all that in, leaning on a shovel or rake. i also including a sort of box of cement sides where various underground drainage hoses to go into. the box was also too thin and unreinforced and has long since fallen apart, cracked and caved in. one of my hoped for projects over the next several years is to remove all that broken up cement and fill that whole drainage system in after putting down a few more tubes (they take up space besides helping move the water. which means i'd have to move less fill to cover it up.
still daydreaming about that project...frozen nights still. this is being a long spring. ok here. i'm stacking up daydreams in between snow squalls. perhaps in a week or two it will finally be warm enough to do some work on the garden shed or a few of the gardens.
p.s. i think in that picture he looks like @Collector 's twin brother...
