We spent a good bit of Saturday cleaning up winter mess in the yard. Finished pruning orchard trees. Added a couple loader buckets full of firewood to the pile. Turned the compost heap and made arrangements with currently unemployed nephew to start hauling in stall waste from the horse college.
Went to the farm and cut some 3"-5" diameter hedge poles to use for legs on the park benches that I'm building for Mrs. Augie. I put her to work with the belt sander smoothing the slab to get it ready for stain. She got it slicked up real nice and stained the top side yesterday.
The market garden got an application of lime on Friday, and I got that tilled in Saturday morning. I still need to clean up the tomato fence, but aside from that it's ready for planting time to arrive.
Nephew and his GF helped a ton in the kitchen garden. We pulled up the west fence and moved it to the other end of the potting shed. Tilled up the sod and buried it with compost about 6" thick. Fences are cleaned up. I used some of the oak lumber that we sawed last weekend to build a new box for the cold frame. The other one I built had some issues so I decided to just replace it. It will be nice to have it inside the garden fence so I can open it up without the chickens tearing up my green salad.
