Been a long time since I've written on the house. A lot has been done on the outside now. The cistern has been hooked up the past two summers, and I use a shallow well pump to pump out the water to use in the garden. I have a total of 11 raised beds to grow vegetables in. Three are on the south side; two of those have asparagus in them. The other 8 are in the back yard, where I rotate vegetables. All the raised beds are 4' by 10' and made of black plastic lumber. A local Minnesota company, Bedford Technologies, makes the lumber out of plastic milk jugs.
Building the raised beds on the south side; spring, 2010
Raised beds 2011, after sidewalks were put in.
Here are the eight beds in the back yard. At this point, I hadn't put any pathways in.
Alex putting in landscaping timbers in the front yard. The front yard once had a small hill in front, which I took out to expose the basement windows in front. The front yard overall is higher than the sidewalk, so I needed to have some sort of wall.
