It has been a long time since I provided an update to the home build and the garden.
House is only a couple of months away from being done. Siding and roof soon.
Appliances arrived and are in storage....black Friday sales with delayed delivery are fantastic.
We saved about 4.5-5k by purchasing all shower tile materials for both bathroom (master bath is a wet bath with shower and huge tub in the same space but seperate set ups) at Habitat for Humanity Re-use Stores. All brand new stuff that was donated...still in the box.
The 6, 25 yrd long 6 feet wide (4.5 feet usable) garden beds have been filled with 40 yards of garden soil.
I got my “Made in West Germany” (1982) Stihl chainsaw up and running after having it sit for 20 years and have been cutting down and sectioning dead oak trees.
The appropriate sized sections are becoming the borders of my raised beds since I don’t want to spend 5k on lumber!
I purchased a 13x10x6 metal greenhouse (cheapo) on Amazon and as soon as I got it up the wind here ripped the cover off overnight.
So I am taking my leftover/extra....but still new.... 6mm poly greenhouse material and covering the hoop/greenhouse frame which is still usable. But forsy I grabbed scrap lumber from my home build and put wooden framing on the ends for extra support.
Now it will have a real door and a genuine temp activated vent window.
A quick Amazon find of wiggle wire tie down system has me confident that the poly will hold up in the wind with that and the extra wooden framing in the ends.
I am out of town this week for work stuff then back at it finishing greenhouse.
My deer proof fence should be up by the end of the month, just in time for first plants to get dropped in the garden.
Thanks for the update! Please continue to keep us posted! :)