Spring Yard Work

It is Spring time here in South Eastern Wyoming. Normally we don't see Spring until May sometime, but this year, we received it in March and it has been beautiful. It seems April may bring us some moisture. Seeing as our reservoirs are low, moisture in any form is appreciated and welcomed!

While waiting for the moisture though, we have things to get done. So here are some photos of projects we have been working on. 

Below is a photo of my smallest garden bed. I normally grow pumpkins, corn, sunflowers and green beans in this bed. It needed tilled up and fertilizer added.

Below is a photo of the base of our Cherry Plum tree out front. We tried rocks in there one year and it wasn't a success, yet we never cleared them out. The the grass started to grow over, and honestly we just couldn't take it anymore! 

Below is a photo of the small garden bed all dug up, with local fertilizer tilled in. Looks MUCH nicer and will be ready for seeds in a couple of weeks.

Here we have a photo of our Cherry Plum tree after all the grass and rocks had been cleared out. It took quite a bit of time, as it all had been really grown over.

However, the time and energy spent was well worth it I think! It looks beautiful. I will be planting flowers all around the base of this tree, and you can see the start of what will be a faerie garden, which I am rather excited about.

What we have here is a "before" photo. We had two massive hail storms roll through within a week of each other last summer. So we had our siding redone on our home. We saved this 25' piece of siding to use for more growing space. I had fabulous ideas I couldn't wait to put to use!

This is how our dog helps....oh what a bum!

First my Husband cut them, then closed off the ends. Then my sister and I spray painted the outsides of gutters, hunter green.

Here is a view of our smallest garden bed, after I painted and put up the green bean trellis :) I can't wait to see viney green beans growing up this trellis. We upcycled our daughter's old metal bunk bed pieces!

Here is a view of the gutters! Which are now going to be the "beds" for all our greens, lettuce, salad bowl, spinach..and possibly radishes.

This is just an added photo of my beautiful rhubarb! It has already started coming up and there are well over 10 stalks!! Oh my we will be having a lot of rhubarb pies and treats this year!

So we are well on our way here at TnT Homesteads, getting ready for planting season and all that entails. 

Are you ready to start sprouting?? Have you been working on your yards and gardens? If not, take advantage of the nice weather and get outside and get dirty!