A Work In Progress

In the game of homesteading incremental gains are where it's at. A non-stop evolution of building upon what you have done earlier. So it was this weekend. The garden fence isn't finished yet, but I managed a good bit of it. All of the posts are in now. Nothing left for next weekend but to wire the corner braces then stretch the fence wire. I haven't bought a gate as I haven't decided what I want yet. Once the no-climb is stretched I'll still have to trench around the perimeter for the wire that I'll bury along the bottom.

Here's a photo of where I'm at now. Even with the landscape view I couldn't quite get the entire 80ft x 80ft thing in one shot so you'll have to excuse the bit of corner that was cut off. The planted part of the garden looks worse for the wear with the light frost we received a couple of nights ago that bit the peppers a bit. If we come anywhere close to the twenty two predicted for Monday night that should finish them and a fair part of the garden weeds off leaving me less to have to pull later on (I hope).










Speaking of pulling, in spite of marauding chickens and the depredations of insects in our hither to now warm winter the turnips are still producing. I pulled these tonight. The row really needs thinning but they're doing their best.














Winter seems finally to have come to us, but no snow. At least not the frozen kind. What I do have are these:





I don't know what they are. One day I'll have to look them up. As you can see they lay very close to the ground and they have been slowly spreading across the yard for the last several years. I suppose the slowly improving soil out there is what's doing it.

That's pretty much it for now. If I can get the fence wire stretched next weekend maybe I'll be able to finally weed the garden. I also really need to start seeding whatever I'm going to set out for transplants for the Spring garden. Bell peppers at the least and some paprika peppers. The chipotles I made the year before last came off so well I'm thinking of trying my hand at smoked paprika. It's very good stuff, but also rather expensive when you can find it.

.....Alan.