Garden Season
Category Life in Cape Breton
With the early spring that everyone on the east coast seems to be having, the last few weeks have been spent creating a vegetable garden and landscaping. It seems that everyone that comes by brings a plant or two, and we are rapidly running out of room for growing things (or at least on the acre or two immediately surrounding the house). As for the vegetable garden, I ordered 72 rough sawn juniper boards and built twenty four 8 foot by 4 foot beds. 12 cubic yards of top soil just about filled them all, and we have already managed to plant a third of them. It will take a season or two to get things really in shape, but it's great to have it started. Juniper supposedly has the same rot avoidance properties as preasure treated lumber, and at only 50 cents a board foot significantly less expensive. Time will tell though if their durability is as advertised..
With the early spring that everyone on the east coast seems to be having, the last few weeks have been spent creating a vegetable garden and landscaping. It seems that everyone that comes by brings a plant or two, and we are rapidly running out of room for growing things (or at least on the acre or two immediately surrounding the house). As for the vegetable garden, I ordered 72 rough sawn juniper boards and built twenty four 8 foot by 4 foot beds. 12 cubic yards of top soil just about filled them all, and we have already managed to plant a third of them. It will take a season or two to get things really in shape, but it's great to have it started. Juniper supposedly has the same rot avoidance properties as preasure treated lumber, and at only 50 cents a board foot significantly less expensive. Time will tell though if their durability is as advertised..