January 28
Loving it!
Clear and gorgeous. So what if it's cold. I've got gloves.
We've decided to put all the raised beds in in stone. I'm really tired of this world and all it's manufactured stuff. I don't mind our using some of that to leverage the future, but then it has to go! WE want a sustainable universe that's all stone and moss and rustic wood and carved and beautiful, old looking - real, darn it.
Fortunately, Eric said he wanted to come out and work this week. Eric is the most beautiful rock-worker I can imagine. We've cleared most of the brambles out of the lower garden area. A bit more to do. We've cut some of the long grasses that are still laying on the ground - perfect for what we need. (Gotta find out how careful we need to be of the native blackberry vines growing between some of the grass. Do they regenerate from the segments enough, so we'll not harm them? Don't want to loose those. Also, totally yummy.)
We're going to try an experiment in easy watering, by laying bundles of long stems into the soil to feed the water along under the surface when it's really dry, so we use less water and the water travels by itself. We don't know how long the bundles of grass will last without being eaten by worms, etc. but we'll try it out. We've got more grass to cut and then are going to mark out all the beds with double rows of the six inch plastic pots and start using the squares as beds (some of the beds are round, among the trees, some in the field and in the forest garden), while slowly replacing those walls, one section at a time, as we do the rock work.
Roz received wood-carving tools for Christmas. We'll be able to do some cool and funky stuff on the cabin shutters, porch and accessories, tools, etc. along with Will's great help with the driftwood and rustic furniture building.
That's all for now,
On with the sunshine!
Wezley
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