It has been so long since I posted on progress on the Backyard Project I'm going to do a quick recap of where things were at in the beginning of November.
The raised studio beds were constructed, filled and planted with spring bulbs.
The 3 hugelkultur beds were constructed and planted with a winter green manure mix.
Soil was laid down for the meadow plants in the flat areas in between.
Here am I planting comfry roots around the base of all 3 hugelkultur beds.
I mulched the studio beds with fallen maple leaves making them ready for the winter.
Tom had excavated and placed the rock for the gravel bed garden.
He had also constructed all of the raised rock garden beds and filled them with logs and soil.
Then the rains kept coming turning the gravel bed garden site into a swimming pool. It served to highlight where we needed to place the French drain.
The areas around the hugelkultur beds got super-saturated. We want the water to accumulate around these beds where the buried logs have the capacity to absorb huge amounts of water but the amount of water showed us how much we have to build up the pathways.
Meanwhile, the raised rock beds soaked up the above average rainfall like a sponge. The rotten logs under the soil are doing their job.
And this is how we left the project until the new year.
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