Garden Project Day 8

Sadly, I had to return to work today, so Day 8 featured only the boys working on this, but they got a lot done:




Now that the one side is complete, they have started filling it up with soil, so you can really see it coming together. Only a few more weeks until planting time!

Garden Project Day 7

Day 7 was a day of brick-laying. Progress:

Garden Project Day 6

I had to take pictures this morning of Day 6's progress, since the boys were working into the night on this one. Day 6 was all about preparing the area for the brick work, and some actual brick laying too. Before that, though, we had to prepare the beds for the bricks, by digging a small trench and then filling up the trench to the right height with sand. We also had to prepare the irrigation system enough so that we could lay bricks over top of it:



The boys laid out all those bricks in the dark in a crazy wind storm:



When we were pouring the concrete, we had extra concrete that we put to use by making stepping stones. We poured the leftover concrete into some old drywall mud pails we had, and on Day 6 they were set, so we removed them from the buckets:



Onward to Day 7...

Garden Project Day 5

Secksy.

Garden Project Day 4

Well, here's another day come and gone - Day 4. We got another load of dirt bright and early in the morning, and I had to move the whole pile out of the way - and there was already a pile of dirt in the most convenient spot to relocate it, so I really had my work cut out for me. Here's our progress for the day:



Here's a closer-up shot of all that dirt. My arms hurt every time I look at this picture. Oh well, at least I'm totally beefy now (hahahaha). My only reprieve from the dirt work today was the torture session... err, dentist appointment, I had (which I totally forgot about until they phoned me, wondering where I was). By the way, that's 6 cubic yards of dirt there - 3 from yesterday and 3 more from today. We may yet get more, too...



Here's a close-up of the windy path, with the forms all ready to go.



I'd write more, but my arms have had enough for one day. The pictures are each worth 1000 words though, right? So I hope you enjoyed my 3000+ word post!

Garden Project Day 3

Here's some dirt that should actually host a nice garden. You can see the difference between the new stuff (delivered by none other than the best) and the old stuff. The dump truck was just over an inch too wide to be able to back through the gap between two fence posts, so he had to dump the dirt right there, and I had to move that dirt out of the parking lot and out of the way, because we're getting another load tomorrow (okay, another part load, as the bobcat operator where we got the dirt from couldn't reach any higher, so that's really only a quarter of a load you see there):


Today was a much longer day than yesterday. Yesterday we really only worked on the yard for a couple hours, but today we worked for closer to ten hours. Behold our progress:



You can see I moved that whole pile of dirt over - we'll be using a wheelbarrow to spread it through the whole garden, after we install the path and the surrounding 'walls'. Today we also built half the forms for the concrete we are pouring to make the path.



Tomorrow: concrete and bricks. I've never done any of this stuff before, so it should be a very informative day.

Garden Project Day 2

Today was another day of using the rototiller and scooping out gravel, plus some pricing out of various materials. It wasn't that exciting, but we did solidify our plan a lot more and are ready to add some decent soil.



Check out the size of some of the rocks on top of the wheelbarrow. We have quite the high quality dirt, let me tell you. That is, of course, why we have such healthy looking grass - all the nutrients and stuff. Tomorrow we are getting a dump truck full of good soil, and we will dig out where the path through the garden will be.